B.C. announces 330 new homes for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside homeless

The B.C. government has pledged to open hundreds more units of short-term housing for people living on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

“These are short-term spaces; we are working very closely with the City of Vancouver to build longer-term, affordable housing for people,” he said. “The goal is for people to get into shelters, then get into supportive housing or in some cases complex-care housing and then, once they’ve got that stability, to get them into either affordable rental units or market rental.”

“These challenges, to state the obvious, are real and significant. They are bigger than just Vancouver; they impact our entire region. And, I want to be very clear, despite all the great things that are going on, these challenges will not be solved overnight.” Of 10 people living on East Hastings who spoke with The Globe and Mail on Sunday, two said they had been offered housing and all said they have recently and repeatedly had belongings thrown away by city workers, with no opportunity to retrieve them.

Legalized hard drugs! Free houses! Van’s Righteous times bro! Unless you’re a lawbiding hardworking tax payer paying for it all & trying to raise a family in this left mess🙄 Community killing left politicians never credit suffering tax payers for their vote pandering handouts.

Good move by the government. You need to address the mental health issue. Many of these people can not look after theirselves.

Yes. House the drug addicts and we will pay.

JenStDen Don't believe everything they tell us. Keeping my fingers crossed. No one should ever be homeless.

330 is nothing. Clean up the government drug mismanagement problem and all these people go back to work. 1. Place all addicts in locked treatment where they exit chemical free with a job and housing in up to one year. 2. Mandatory life sentence for all drug traffickers, no bail.

They aren’t on the street for lack of a home. They’re there because it’s a big party where they get free paychecks and crack vending machines so the party never ends. Liberals are mentally rtarded and this is what happens when you vote them in.

330 new crack dens, business gonna be booming

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