What Is Your Opinion on Homeless People and Traffic Greater Vancouver?

Question by Kristine A: What is your opinion on homeless people and traffic Greater Vancouver?
Quite often when I’m walking in downtown Vancouver I see homeless people on the streets begging for money. I also can tell that many of the homeless people are mentally unstable and have drug problems. In my opinion there should be more shelters and drug addiction programs so that this people can be off the street and have better quality lives. I think that people and private companies need to be more involved as well I also think that only giving money to the homelessness at Christmas is ludicrous. People are homeless all year round and I think the Salvation Army should do a kettle all year round, not just Christmas. I also read in the paper that about a few hundred homeless shelters recently opened because of the winter whether. I think that homeless shelters should be open all year round. There are homeless people in the summer, spring, fall, and winter. Also, more involvement with volunteers to assist- sometimes some of it has to do with the lack of support and resources. everywhere in Vancouver we are experiencing this problem of homelessness. People at one time another had everything: jobs,money,home,friends,popularity,famil… and you name it, they had it. Then just as quickly as getting there, they got fired,or sick,or a natural disaster as earthquake,fire, divorce, or pestilence they lost it. The first area that needs to be taken into consideration is main street. forget the exact area (i think it’s by Chinatown) but there’s a huge community of homeless people or people living well below their means.
Many of these people come from abused homes and many young girls turn to prostitution I think they should also have shelters for prostitute

Stupid idiotic people come up to me on the street asking for drugs and also sick men keep hitting on me! What pathetic people they are! Greater Vancouver is the home to people with mentally illness, the homeless, drug-addicts, alcoholics, rapists, and street attackers and street gangs! Those people disgust me! People don’t even drive care in this pathetic metropolis! Greater Vancouver must have the highest crime, drug and traffic right in the province! I think there should be more money spent on drug rehab programs, homeless shelters, the police should put mentally ill people in the hospital or prison. They should also have more cross guards and more traffic lights that have a timer on it! BC Transit has too many buses that are running late!! They should have more bus drivers and the buses should come more often! I think Greater Victoria is much better metropolis area! And it’s not just the city of Vancouver that has drug and homelessness. The most recent homeless count on the North Shore was a minimum of 117 and that is actually down from the previous count of 123. According to SPARK, CCPA, and the Public Health Assoc. of B.C. a comprehensive poverty reduction and homelessness plan would cost British Columbians $ 3-4 billion per year. The cost of doing nothing to fix homelessness is at least $ 8 billion. Page 62 of the New DNV OCP promises to do a number of things to do with wrestling with poverty in the community such as working with senior members of levels of government!.
Thank you!

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Answer by Edward
While I agree with you, many large cities in the U.S. have the same problems. I’ve spoken to some homeless people on the streets of New York, where shelters are open 24/7 and for the most part, they would rather take their chances on the streets than stay in a shelter. They fear being beat up or robbed by others there. Shelters tend to be in industrial neighborhoods far from residential areas. For as compassionate as some people are, they would rather not see the homeless, mush less have one living anywhere near them. Believe me, I’ve seen plenty of people living in cardboard boxes and shanty towns. No amount of money will ever totally fix this problem, there will always be people on the streets.

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