Count of homeless people in Metro Vancouver shows sharp spike
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2023
- Greater Vancouver’s 2023 Point-in-Time Homeless Count found a 32 per cent increase in people experiencing homelessness, compared to the previous count in 2020, with the cities of Surrey, Vancouver and Burnaby seeing the largest changes. The number of youth, seniors and LGBTQ people experiencing homelessness has also increased.
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#tents #encampment #tinyhomes #homelessness #britishcolumbia #cbcvancouver
Liberal utopia.
Capitalism. Who are the rich? They own property and lots of money to their name. What percentage are they of the population? Less than 1%. What about the other 8 billion or so people? All exploited poor, working and enslaved people. How fun! Born into bondage and most don't even notice the shackles.
But some do, thankfully, and they try to wake others up.
Read, watch, and discuss! It's better than not thinking for yourself.
@coolioso808 what do you propose? Communism? So we can be like China?
@@coolioso808
Many of whom living under socialism itself or the fallout of it.
@@cwp2580so it’s liberalism or communism? Lmao
@@shauncameron8390 Correction: 8 billion live under the inequality driven structurally by market capitalism on a global scale, mostly out of the "US based" multi-national corporations and central banks.
But, thanks for saying you don't understand what socialism is or capitalism is without actually saying it.
If we have a housing crisis, why do we let over 3,000 migrants per day into the country?
Great Reset needs Chaos.
For liberal votes
Because we have the tiniest bit of a hint of humanity still for a while hopefully.
BC they are moving into the empty apts. Sad that our officials are happy killing their own communities and give up to immigrants
I have a friend who was renting same apartment since the late 80's it was $400 a month now that same place went up to $3200 a month he went back to Saskatchewan.
why is your friend renting for 40 years?
$3200 wouldn't cover the owner's expenses
Shits ridiculous
@@SamsungLe-vz2uy Do you think that it was affordable, then the sky exploded.
@@SamsungLe-vz2uybecause the chinese bought all the houses
I'm sure a million more migrants and 900K rich international students will help out.
Liberal logic.
$650 MILLION TO UKARAINE WHILE OUR PEOPLE BEGGING FOR FOOD
You mean illegal migrants
@@dylanphotography5050 What? Is Putin bombing you too? Did your place or your neighbor's explode?
you mean $9.5 bln to Ukraine @@dylanphotography5050
If I was homeless in Vancouver, the only thing that would piss me off was all the other homeless people. I would probably live deep in the forest and eat bear meat.
lol i was thinking that too, they need survival training and they could be living like truly free people
Gypsyclaw 😊👍 been there....done that. I totally agree with your comment
a very level headed thought, and that the real problem, most of these people are not level headed, with this fentanyl epidemic, most don't really care about anything than where their next drug fix comes from.
I work with the public, for the city. I am seeing people with genuine physical disabilities being turned down for housing, while immigrated new arrivals are receiving housing. People with addictions have taken over the YM and YWCA's.
We need a screening process that allows disabled people the priority to have housing. This is not the Canada I was a part of.
If you have a substance abuse problem, you piss in a cup, every three days. If you fail, you are out. If you don't you begin your job search adventure, then get a job.
As far as immigration, once the political tensions have deescalated, move back home. If you violate the terms of your stay, back home you go. If you are healthy, get a job. If you are here as a single mother, and a man is living in your home, back home you go.
Let's start looking after the ones in serious need first. Triage if you will. NOBODY with a disability needs to suffer in my Canada.
Agreed with all you said.
@DonnellxxOkafor
Agreed. But they won't because they much rather have the locals get bred out of existence than be seen as racist, xenophobic and cruel by the groups they're beholden to.
our housing minister is a Somali Refugee I believe, that was his credentials for the position. So it might be why literally every city village town in canada has homeless camps and in most you pass at least 2 overdoses a day. myself if I was going to add a million new people to a country I might see about housing beforehand
heres a secret. the gov wants the immigrants to stay, they dont want them going home ever.
that will never happen. gov is corupt@DonnellxxOkafor
Vancouver can't even afford to live in Vancouver.
You can not just give a person with addiction issues an apartment or it will be a crack house within a week.
Not all addicts are the same, youd be surprised at the people in your life who use secretly and are able to maintain a relatively stable life
its odd how people point out addicts on the streets, but never realize the biggest addicts have homes, but can handle their addictions better than others for a time. 600,000 homeless Canadians and rising fast! Soon it will be 1 million homeless in Canada@@em4706
@@em4706this, so many coke heads up north it’s INSANE
Thank the government you get what you vote for
trudeau's second mandate will be a traumatic memory my whole life ngl
Not at all, I did not vote for these clowns.
@@Abbittibbi
But the people in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and the Maritimes did.
you honestly think voting makes any difference. all sides are owned and controlled
Voting doesn't make a difference they all work for the rich just in different ways. We'll still be fucked sideways.
You get what you vote for..
Let’s spend money on more important issues:
Maybe Send more billions to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Give the tax money to organized crime and drug dealers ( so called “safe supply “)
im pretty sure nobody checked a box saying lets allow open drug use legalize it All every addict and their cousins from every province flocked here !!!! That's the problem and has been always will be FIRST INJECTION SITE ruined our city
I don't know about the other things, but safe supply is what is getting sold to high school kids while the people who are supposed to have it seem to go buy something stronger on the street. Safe supply is not working. It's time to pivot and stop funding this safe supply endeavour that means well but is not working. I heard Indigenous peoples want culturally respectful rehab centres instead. Let's try something like that. Stop being stuck in what is not working because you have money and time sunk into it. Safe supply is not working, from what I can see. And I do not want my tax dollars going to a program that is not working. I still respect that they tried something. It's better than not trying. Now it is time to look at the results and admit it is not working. Pivot, just pivot.
@@Creashone omg you are absolutely right and I’m so glad that finally someone agrees with me! The safe supply is actually hurting because recruits new users and the disgusting cycle continues. Hard Core addicts seek out the dope that just put their buddy down having to have EMT called because they know that that’s the strongest on the street. My city made horrific decisions with out even considering the outcome
Exactly! They did everything to enable and I’ll go a step further ENCOURAGING drug use it all started in my opinion with the safe injection site which is now used as a hub for drug dealers to stand make their money it’s absolutely disgusting and safe is the furthest thing it is
Compassion went out the window when they start defecating on the streets leaving open needles etc this has ruined Vancouver and will continue worst epidemic yet nobody treats it as such
That woman handing application is a golden person
Maybe, just maybe, we should not enable these people,... Maybe just maybe?
We should make shelter in the parliament building
Trouble on every side when the wicked are exalted.
Exactly. The media keeps exalting the Liberals.
@@glennhankins6927
So do much of the Canadian population.
@@shauncameron8390 The Liberal Party is currently polling at 27%..... so 73% of Canadians don't like them.
Canadians need to force their government to take care of Canadians first. That is their primary function, and the reason they are elected. Enough is enough.
this is the NDP's fault. david eby and the rest of them. handing out drugs for free. taxing everyone, and giving us nothing back. all the photoshoots and headlines are lies. look around and see the results of their "work". we need to vote conservative next election.
Surprise! Surprise! Vancouver is one of the warmest cities in Canada during the winter. Winter is coming and the homeless migration has begun. California has the same problem in the U.S.
Lol even though what you have mentioned is correct you are missing the other major parts which is expensive housing(municipal government Red tape) , massive immigration, open border policies, drug addiction, which is all related to the ndp and liberal government policies.
@@rafial81 The government stance on drugs and safe supply just fuels the issue further... save people dying from one poison by pumping them with another, all the while they are often let into the pits of having little to no moral inclination as to the consequences of their behaviours on themselves or the communities they live in, which is probably in due part to the ease of access to the drugs and the continuing relaxation of criminal justice. An absolute mess here, and we're making it far far far easier for others to fall down the cracks without much of a fight. Severe lack of genuine compassion and love for others from both the government and local communities on this here in BC
@@rafial81exactly
Hongcouver
@@rafial81 Yes, that's the issues that are driving homelessness all across Canada.
I've traveled this summer through a number of towns across southern Ontario and was surprised by the number of homeless sleeping in the streets and parks and begging for change at the local Tim Horton's and grocery stores in these rural farming communities. It's no longer a big city urban issue.
expensive housing(municipal government Red tape) , massive immigration, open border policies, drug addiction, which is all related to the ndp and liberal government policies.
Street homeless live very simple and minimalist type of life. They set a tent, and that becomes their new home with new stories and memories. They don't bother anyone, and just want to be left alone. Sadly, all of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or fentanyl related violence in near future.
@@rafial81 Fentanyl and Tranq horse tranquilizer.
5:48 to 6:04 CBC pulled the audio. Can't say the truth, people will get mad. Carry that narrative hard as you can.
Everyone wants to make money so now a simple house becomes a luxury house no matter where in the city you live and prices goes over the roof. The reality is that we have poor people. People paid at minimum wage. They deserve to be able to have a place they call home. A rich country with people homeless? I have an issue with that.
Only 10% of Canadians make minimum wage.
@@shauncameron8390 Yeah and that means that 10% are at risk of being homeless especially with the inflation. The government must regulate rent to make sure that it doesn’t disconnect from the reality of the population. You cannot let rent go 15% to 30% up when minimum wage doesn’t follow. That means that poverty will go up too.
@@dujardinmtl
Government regulating rent is part of the reason the housing crisis exists.
@@shauncameron8390 dude where does this comes from? Anything to back what you’re saying? Because what I see is that people where buying small houses, making small cosmetic changes and reselling the same house within month with a huge margin. It’s called a flip. And prices have been going through the roof since then. Because international buyers were like it’s so easy to make money within months in real estate in Canada so let’s buy some places where we will never live just to resale and make money. Land lords did the same : cosmetic changes or repossession for so called parents just to rent it back at higher prices. So the lack of regulation or oversight is to blame to my opinion.
@@shauncameron8390 How many people make just above minimum wage? 2 bucks an hour extra doesn't pay for a house.
No adult who did not see this coming 20 years ago is currently unemployed or homeless.
Why do people stay in the most expensive place in Canada? I moved years ago and purchased a perfect little home in Alberta and it’s been so much more affordable for me!
Im saving money to do this.... Just scared i won't find a job in Alberta
If you vote Liberal/NDP, this is what you end up with
if you vote Con, you will still get this.. none are good, look at Ontario with it's Conservative Greasy Premier Doug Ford,, Doug Ford removed rent control on all new apartment units built after 2018
@@tony--james
Not nearly as bad as Liberal/NDP-led BC.
Street homeless live very simple and minimalist type of life. They set a tent, and that becomes their new home with new stories and memories. They don't bother anyone, and just want to be left alone. Sadly, all of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or fentanyl related violence in the near future.
@@sarbantz Don't do drugs then.
There are also way more in Edmonton AB. There are tents in places there never were before. God help them when the -20 temperatures arrive.
Edmonton's (counted) homeless population was 2,519 in 2022, and 156 of them died that year. You have a 1 in 16 chance of dying if you become homeless in Edmonton. This number doesn't include homeless people that are admitted into hospital and then die in the hospital. So if you're sick, perhaps with a bad heart, and you die in the hospital you're considered a housed person.
-20? That’s overly optimistic! Try -45
I live in Edmonton, you mean -35 to -40 at night.
I live in Edmonton, although frowned upon by landlords, many apartments, the tenants will let them sleep in the basement hallways. The basement has less traffic and is carpeted and warmer because that's where the boilers are. As long as they aren't partying.
I lived in more than 1 building that has done this, trust me, they aren't there doing drugs. They are exhausted from being out in the cold all day trying to keep moving to stay warm.
Tenants often, leave water or sandwiches or old blankets.
The landlord's threatened to evict anyone letting them in or not calling the police....who can deny somewhere warm to sleep. The alternative is death.
Others find hidy-holes in the bushes, trees and slopes of the river valley. If you know the off trails, you will see into the bushes, a bundle of their sleeping gear and a marker. That's how these people stake claim to their spot.
We have so many public buildings that could be opened at night for sleeping like libraries etc. But the city won't do it
"Because it encourages them to live on the streets "!!!
Really!!!!
Nobody picks to end up homeless, nobody.
FYI I grew up in Winnipeg. I was a street kid in the mid 80s.
Nobody chooses this.
@@AmandaHugandKiss411Now your real! When piss freezes before it hits the ground.
What do you mean free drugs didn't fix the world lmfao
Everything under the NDP is worse than before they took power.
Crime is up, homelessness, drug addiction and overdoses, health care, housing, the cost of living, taxes,and yet people in BC continue to put up with their incompetence.
Oh, and economists are predicting BC will the bottom of rung when it comes to economic growth in the next two years.
lol u think the liberals would do any better? how bout those cons? not many choices out here , we got duped by Sim
Doesn't seem to make a difference no matter who's in power
Pick united this time , why don’t try a new party?
Just a decade ago, BC had the highest child poverty rate in Canada. Today, it has the highest overall living costs and eviction rate in Canada.
ndp doing much better than libs, those libs were so corrupt set us back so far @@sweengeppetto1915
U can’t blame the landowners for raising rent, the banks have increased interest rates so high, people have to pay off their mortgage somehow.
Wait another 12-16 months. if your mortgage isn’t up 45% already, it will be by then 😂
Yes you can actually they quite literally are playing a primary role in the collapse of a country.
@@Crowback354 that’s easy for a renter to say. But if u can give me a way to pay off my mortgage that’s increased almost 30% without getting $1 extra on rental income for said property then please enlighten me… then again if u had a way then u wouldn’t be renting and u’d be one of the landlords raising the rent. I believe in helping people but there’s a cause n effect to every situation… interest rates go up…rent goes up
If you are desperately depending on rental income to pay your mortgage, that means u cant afford it. Sell the house
@@amitchawla5124 I don’t remember using the word desperately, but in any case, let me explain simple economics; now be open to this, don’t let your personal feelings cloud your judgement. if u owned a store and were bringing in something, let’s say fruit, and the price of fruit had been raised dramatically would u not pass that cost on to your consumer? Now, ur not going to lose the store if you don’t sell one apple, but at the same time y would u wanna be losing money? If I have a property that I rent out for rental income, and the mortgage rate went up, I’m going to want to make more off that property regardless of if I can afford the mortgage or not. As I said I believe in helping people, and I do but to blame landowners or renters is wrong, it’s the policy makers, the banking system and the likes that create this unstable market and everybody pays the price. Instead of everybody arguing about whose fault it is, and causing a divide, we should all come together and demand change. Demand more affordable housing, rental housing included. Demand lower mortgage costs, demand that the cost of survival in Vancouver be brought down.
In Surrey Re-gentrification hasn’t help look at Whalley the affordable housing is being bought up by big developers. My family just moved from our home of 18 years affordable rental housing that will now have five condo towers built on it that we could never afford
Whalley used to be one of the most affordable places. Now all the rich immigrants came in and took over
The unintended consequences of rent control.
As an American for Los Angeles, this makes me feel better 😅
Well we should keep importing the whole world here. That will fix things.
In some global-city-living ranking I read that Vancouver is one of the best cities for living. Someone help me explain me these rankings.
Maybe in the 80's and 90's but not so much today, i would rather live in some Asian cities that offer the same quality of life but much lower cost of living.
It’s one of the best cities to live in if you have money.
The native Vancouverites have been pushed out of their habitats. So many foreign interests have come upon this city that the influence has been masked between overseas accounts and local high end trading.
Well, just look at how many refugees from Middle East choose to be in Vancouver then you will know it is the nest city to live. :)
@aavvcc That applies for Manhattan and Dubai as well. Why aren't those cities rated at top like Vancouver?
No wonder. Free drugs. Word travels fast.
Yes like lambs to the slaughter....the whole experiment of the "safe supply " is only a guise...the real goal of the government is to rid the country of people it views as parasites that are a burden on society...unfortunately big pharmaceutical got exposed and sued for their "fast tracking plan to create opioid addicts" so disguising the same plan as a "safe supply " is just a new twist...pretending to care for people hopelessly addicted.
Yep enable enable enable !
💯‼️👏🏼👏🏼
It’s people coming from all across Canada because of the weather. It is warmer, here in Vancouver, than any other city in Canada during the winter.
It is *SAME* in Saint John (NB), and warmer in St Andrews. People should move there (1/10th the price).
@@dasalekhya Quiet or you will start a gold rush!
Toronto has the largest number of homeless people in Canada. 90% of homeless shelters in Canada are in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta, and 44% of them are in Ontario alone.
The government keeps taking services away... this is happening all across Canada... good job
this is the NDP's fault. david eby and the rest of them. handing out drugs for free. taxing everyone, and giving us nothing back. all the photoshoots and headlines are lies. look around and see the results of their "work". we need to vote conservative next election.
It’s a sad situation indeed!
It’s unfortunately a very similar situation on Vancouver Island!
The numbers are climbing!
Good luck folks!
Be kind!
Ya cause Vancouver's dumping them on the Island.
@@waynemerlo7448
You’re right!
this is the NDP's fault. david eby and the rest of them. handing out drugs for free. taxing everyone, and giving us nothing back. all the photoshoots and headlines are lies. look around and see the results of their "work". we need to vote conservative next election.
The sound cuts out at 6 minutes, really great production value, no wonder you people are going out of business
Be kind, Rajesh and Sandeep were only hired just last week replacing Mitch & Carter.
Lets keeping importing more skip the dishes drivers and security guards
those people work hard, they aint the problem.
@@ThreeSixFour yes those are very important jobs in this economic system
@@ThreeSixFour They take jobs away from real Canadians. They definetley are a problem.
the immigration needs to stop until more houses are built and rent costs go down to normal levels
@@Ultrawide_Gameplays_Channel
The same jobs real Canadians swear they're above working?
I can se if this trend does not change a lot of people if they can they will move either to different provinces or going to leave Canada. I hope the new year will show some light. The trend says different.
If you do have family you can live with please have that conversation. I know it can be hard to ask for help. God's know I know. I was homeless back in 2019 until my mother and father offered me a place to live. I thank god I took that chance. I had to respect and follow their rules. It was a good thing that I did for Covid hit that January.
Sending light to those in need. It is not just the addicts on the street anymore it is our grandparents and friends.
Enabling junkies attracted more junkies?
*gasp*
what the point of filling out application when the wait time is like decade , here in the usa some wait list are 15 years,.
Good job Trudope and Eby!
Please! Who is Eby?
Trudolf has done nothing for 8 years.
@@lizajane1878 The big cheese for BC and I keep hearing on CFNR, a commercial stating that my MLA is here to work for me, guess what flavour of governance. The Green are way more intelligent!
@@lizajane1878The spelling is wrong: he's suggesting that it's the Premier David Ebay...
@@lizajane1878
David Eby, the current Premier of British Columbia.
Tent City, that's where we're going, freezing and shivering 'til dawn, Tent City, that's where we're going and we won't be back, 'cause the money's all gone!"-The Shartland Brothers.
GO SOCIALISM, YEE HAW
Ukraine needs more funding!
I agree with u. We are concern about War in Ukrain more than Canadians!!!!
Neither Ukraine or the homeless need funding.
DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS. Some who do get the housing because of their ongoing Drug Addiction they don't respect it or their environments you must tackle the addiction issues before offering something unatainable to maintain.
This all falls on Jagmeet ! How much more suffering Canadians. Can take ! If one Canadian suffer we all suffer he and Justin do not speak for all Canadians! Stop all this please
Would like to know how many truckdrivers are homeless
All these leaders are clowns. No one on this side if the planet seems to have any viable solutions.
This is what happens when you vote in NDP and Liberals just saying.
Visited from europe a few weeks ago expecting vancouver to be a progressive place with social safety nets… I was disappointed. It is shameful.
... sound cuts out. Took me way too long to figure out it was in the video.
It's not right. It's so not right. These politicians are playing with people's lives.
A lot of the homeless brought it upon themselves, though.
Don't blame the Government for their own stupid choices.
no - it is up to adults to be productive... t provide (pay for) housing and shelter via skills/work. the freeloading model of others providing services and money... who are the others if they won't do it for others.
I would rather live outside than pay that high rent
Only if the government stop giving away money from other countries but instead start to built more house or apartment and make it adorable. They spend like billions of dollars on other people but don’t want to spend any dimes on Canadian. This is just sad
I visited Toronto in 2002, and was walking down Queen Street with my girl friend. By the time I walked 5-6 blocks my pockets were empty and I was out of smokes because I kept getting asked if I had spare change or a cigarette. The problem with homelessness was bad then, but far worse now. There are so many homeless that people develop an apathy toward them and I witnessed this first hand. Today, it's an epidemic in several major cities in Canada. I fear it will spread to the U.S. very soon.
"You'll own Nothing and be Happy"
Their words
Klaus's minions hard at work in Canada
😊
Liberal/NDP-voters in the city are living out those words.
What an awful production job. Go away CBC.
CBC your national leftist network.
I hope my friend is safe being there man. I miss her so much. I wish she’d come home…
It's bad even here in Torontoas well as Hamilton
I just visited downtown Ottawa. Their homeless problem has gotten worse from my last visit 3 years ago. People can't afford the high rents and jobs aren't paying enough to survive on
Guess they are doing a better job of keeping the addicts alive, now if only it was easier for them to access addiction recovery services the number of street people might go down.
Just-tin-true-do in power. Everything goes up, rent, gas, food, taxes, crime. Only our wages stay the same, but the wage doesn't go as far.
Why not talk about the drug problem there?
I know it's a naive question, but what kind of jobs can these people get? How would they even unhomeless themselves?? what can the community do to fix this at a systemic level?
I like this question because it acknowledges that homeless people are not completely powerless in this situation. They have some choice. There are some options for some people. There is potential for some of them to find a way out of the sand trap of poverty. Employment and making money are definitely the ideal options for those who can be employed and for those who can't, this isn't about those people, they need something else and I don't pretend to know what to do - I just have questions. How can employment meet employable people on the street? My thoughts were some kind of live-in employment. Or companies where there is a covered area to sleep if a certain amount of output is reached. It is not compassionate in the way people think of it. It's having expectations and challenging people to meet them if they are able. If they are not, they would not be worse off than they already are. It seems like a big messed up ball of yarn that needs to be pulled apart and loosened up so that individual messes can be fixed up. It's not possible to fix a balled up yarn all at once. Each separate piece is connected although kind of has to be done on its own... So for those that could work, it might regain them a sense of pride to earn their own warm, dry, safe sleeping space.
No housing, cost of everything on the rise, less employment, no manufacturing, natural resources on the decline, less healthcare; solution: bring 50 000 more immigrants/year.
Natural resources are not on a decline. The problem is the government made it too costly and illegal to do anything with them.
@@shauncameron8390 What city do you live in? I'm in the ''deep forest'' and I see the size of the trees that the logging trucks are taking out from here. Previously I lived near a mine, and you want be to talk about them blasting the entire mountain to get the metal?
I also notice the death of millions of animals with the destruction of the forest, the clearing for hydro, the streams that do not reach lakes anymore, the desertification of my area... and more.
There is no reason for these people to live in an expensive city. People with Jobs can’t even afford to live in the city and need to commute hours every day ! Go live in a city that is more affordable. You don’t work in the city. You don’t need to be there
Some easy ways to quickly have more housing that's affordable:
1. Allow tiny houses
2. Housing is for one's own shelter only, no one can own more than the place they live in, no landlords or house flippers
3. Non Canadians who live in another country cannot buy property in Canada
I can hear the howls of protest from those who don't want a tiny house near their property, those who want to continue using housing as an investment, etc. Stop just blaming our government. Some people are selfish.
These are the worst thought out ideals ever.
Most houses are shared by families so you would have to kick one family out or make it into a duplex. Most renters don’t have the savings to own.
@@blacksa160
Because most renters can't budget.
And the insatiable, gigantic maw of greed wants more!
Homelessness will never cease to exist. Simply because there are people who choose that lifestyle. They have the freedom to choose that lifestyle. You can offer them homes but they way they see it is you're forcing them to go work, pay taxes, and become another cattle. I chose to live on the streets in my 20s and not gunna lie I kind of miss it because I didn't have a care in the world.
Gosh. I wonder why?
All is well. Never been better. As long as the PM is happy with life, we must be happy, too.
Free drugs free housing free food free cellphones. Geez why do we have a homeless problem in BC?
The mental health industry is causing it.
@@capresti3537
You mean the poverty industry.
@@shauncameron8390 I mean the cause of the homeless is the mental health industry. They are the ones causing it with their fraud.
The NDP “knows” everything, but does nothing…
LAST 8 year of Justin T is worse year in Canada . HOME CRISIS is big issue .
Goodgrief, an elderly woman giving socks and smokes to an able bodied young woman.
Please stop judging. We don’t know the details. People can b depressed and look normal people can b suicidal and look normal people can be homeless and look normal. STOP JUDGING, it can happen to anyone. You can lose everything one day then what? Count your blessings if you have a family, job, a car, etc etc. Don’t every take anything for granted because not everything is granted to everyone…
Build more government housing apartment complexes with government regulated prices.
Good idea, but what about the capitalists who won't make as much profit if that happens? How do you combat the Monopolists? Ever play the board game Monopoly? Ever been the poor one with one other player super rich and owning the majority of wealth and properties? Do they just give people housing for free or let everyone else go bankrupt? Bankruptcy for most players is the main feature of endgame Monopoly, just like end game market capitalism in real life.
Only game change to a more cooperative game can become sustainable and more humane.
Only for them to be either left to crumble or mismanaged to insolvency leading to privatization
Street homeless live very simple and minimalist type of life. They set a tent, and that becomes their new home with new stories and memories. They don't bother anyone, and just want to be left alone. Sadly, all of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or fentanyl related violence in near future.
I think the ndp should make more progress in making it more expensive to live there, that will solve the problem
its not just here its nations
More immigration is the perfect solution according to Trudeau
prime min. trud. must go!! this country needs a man with balls to fix this FREAKSHOW..
Why can the government simply put up a few condos to house them? Surly there can’t be that many of them.
Who do you think the government is and who pays for it all?
How about 10,000 ?? Let's get real
🎉🎉🎉 enjoy liberal NDP government
Good, let them live on the lawns of those rich neighbourhood with mega mansions and excessive golf courses.
CANADA needs to do better for people this is ridiclous 1 bedrooms where i am are 2000 per month i bought a house the closing fees and everything was 10,000 more then what we got
But hey, all those rich immigrants have places to live. AND will vote Liberal in the next federal election too! Perfect.
You know it, they love pandering to immigrants instead of their own people.
Pretty disturbing
What's with these people ? I'm only paying $3,200 a month for my place. Super easy.
5:55 audio?
All first nations?
What about 90% of the rest?
so?how much does the weather her on the west coast play in homeless coming here...
U mean a city/ province that normalizes money laundering has social problems?
Maybe Airbnb's & Microsoft/ big tech can cough up some money. Seeming how they have created much of this instability along with rampant property speculation for decades.
They created nothing. Government policy and intervention caused this. Plus, Microsoft doesn't live here.
Kids are getting a hold of drugs too
My own ideas for the homeless. Well firstly make mental health and violent offenders #1 and #2 priority. Then make a big lot and give Oppenheimer park to the homeless. With flood lights lockers, 24/7 nurses and mental health workers all in that big lot or park. Hire security, a lot of people won’t go to shelters due to it being a high theft place. If you build an infrastructure with the concept being shelter and safety, while have the authority to punish bad behaviour. I’m telling you that’s 80% of the problem solved right there. Minimal cost to the city in comparison and opening up mental hospitals for the ill and jail for the wicked. Simple, affordable and efficient. God bless all you who made it this far.❤ if you have a better plan I’d love to hear it.
i do believe we need to massively expand housing and begin putting shovels in the ground immediately, immigration should be halted until the housing crisis is resolved and we should be pushing as many people into the workforce as possible so they have some income
That will still take years. And I dout the city could catch up and that only applies for disenfranchised, single mothers etc. Reguar working stiffs do not qualify for affordble housing
A grassroots campaign needs to happen to get houses that rent out to rent out bunks (For example a bedroom that can house a king sized bed should have 4 bunks and thus rent out to 4 people, cutting the cost of rent for each individual. Those that are on the streets and still employed should get into those places as there are not enough rentals by any means (this is the fault of the municipalities, in the mid 1990's the entire GVRD voted to accept condos and not apartments (property tax). Renting out 3 bed condo instead would be 8 bunks at a total of $2800 a month, thus reducing rent to $380 per bed. And depending on the size of the bedroom you could have 14 bunks with the beds only being in the bedrooms and having a full living room space with rent being $200 a month per bunk.. It'll be cramped but at least people will be off the streets.
no - this just encourages more to do the freeloading model.
Yes, but there is a bigger problem in our country. Big spenders from overseas are buying houses but they are not occupying them. It seems crazy, you'd think they would try and rent them out. But as the old saying goes, never give a sucker an even break.
Amen
where are their houses??? how come the house prices go extreamly high!
Prime real estate.
Chinese money laundering
Somehow I’m blaming SF CA and the rest of the westcoast for this
*For the drug problem that is
REALLY?!
DS9 Gabriel Bell year 2024, sanctuary districts . Not to far out .
Good. 👍
we need massive amount safe beds, they have a right to sleep.
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