@ontariofirs7347
The government is not responsible for getting your life together. Individuals, communities, charities, organizations and families are suppose to be the ones who do that since they are the ones who help vulnerable persons best.
@JoseBach-hv6lb
Please make Vancouver Great again clean the sidewalks , go for it mayor.
@monl3807
They won't go into programs cause then they have to stop doing drugs....
@johncorcoran4250
With all the money spewing out of the country, take some of it to assist homeless Canadians
@tiffaniterris2886
So you're going to legalize hard drugs, while also cracking down on homeless encampments. I'm not sure where you are going with this Vancouver.
@YouConnolly
About time, get rid of this for their own safety
@billclay9511
Send in the goon squad
@laurafulton7023
Why isn’t a Canadian presenting the news on Canadian Television?
@canadianbc7789
I don't want them on streets, if you want them, take them home. Salute to great mayor.
@steveswhirld
sweep,vacuum ,dispose
@spunkybrewster1972
They're probably handing out free bus tickets to Nanaimo as well.
@Scottieguru
In my opinion; Mental illness and drug addiction should be treated, not as a housing problem, but as a long term care problem like Alzheimer's disease. These mentally ill, drug addicted people are not capable of mustering the responsibility to care and look after a home. The government can easily set up a modular portable trailer housing area that is similar to how the education system moves portables for students when populations fluctuate. Around these modular trailer housing facilities can be the medical, social and healthcare facilities to treat the drug addicts and provide clean safe injection sites to those who want to be cared for. The ones that do not want treatment can live in their portable providing they obey the law, do not commit violence and respect their neighbours. The police and city crews should continue to remove squatters and drug addicts away from Hastings and Main. They should shut down all those ancient SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY hotels and condemn them. Redevelop the area for mixed income housing, co-op rentals and condos, B.C. housing, etc..The government should continuously enforce the street squatter laws and not allow the drug addicts and dealers a chance to get a foothold in the area. Simultaneously, the government can easily promote the "new locations" for modular portable S.R.O. housing by a selected mental health/addictions services location.
@Centurio-LegioX-Equestris
Vancouver should be fair and look after the interest of tax paying citizens. People should work, earn a living, live a clean and disciplined life and take care of themselves.
@danieltheal
The mayor is looking for housing options as he continues to decamp the homeless. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Obviously these people have to sleep somewhere but if there is nowhere for them to go all you are doing is making a bad situation worse. Maybe the mayor is serious about wanting to improve the situation or maybe he just wants to punish them. Whatever his intentions and motives are his methods are punitive because there aren’t viable alternative options for housing. If I was homeless and helpless I would rather sleep in a sleeping bag on a mattress in a tent than on the concrete in the open on a sidewalk in the rain on a cold night. When you have never been in such a dangerous, precarious situation it is hard to imagine living like that. People are there for a variety of reasons; childhood trauma, substance abuse, mental illness and so on. To people who are doing well it looks crazy, messy, lawless, dangerous and chaotic down there and it is but they are people who need shelter, support and the things that most people take for granted. Destroying the only shelter they have and trashing their possessions without a better alternative is just thoughtless and cruel.
@aleksanderkuncwicz7277
They have to do this in downtown edmonton too.
@christopherreynolds5832
Forced labour, gets them clean and gets them set up for society.
@jn1096
Tell us again how giving free drugs and kits is going to help the situation? I love hearing stupidity.
@t3jf
Send them to Saskatchewan
@jdmutchler
Put a mask on please Vince😊
@Sam-ie4tf