Even with 606 new units in 13 buildings, the annual survey found hundreds of people without a roof over their heads.The number of homeless people in Vancouver has hit a new high in 2019, despite hundreds of new temporary modular housing units built in the city over the past two years and concerted efforts by city and provincial governments to reduce the number of people who sleep rough each night.
Asked what it would take to reverse the rising homelessness trend, Mr. Stewart called for more federal investment, saying the city and the province are already working flat-out to tackle the issue. In Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood, some residents fought a proposed modular housing project over concerns that it would result in more crime and drug use in the neighbourhood and because it would be close to schools.But even with 606 new units in 13 buildings, the annual survey found hundreds of people without a roof over their heads.The city on Wednesday released preliminary data from an annual “point-in-time” homeless count conducted in March.
According to a staff presentation, a healthy vacancy rate is between 3 to 5 per cent. In Vancouver, the rate for private rental units going for less than $750 a month is zero; for those priced between $1,250 and $1,999 a month, it’s 0.8 per cent.
What did you think when the plutocrats took over? That we'd all get a free hotdog, a condo, and a handy? This unyielding GREED will swallow us all. Scrapitalism
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There are 60.000 homeless people in LA alone. Today the world's richest 26 billionaires own as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people on earth. Vancouver, you're not alone!
Asylum seekers still get hotels on taxpayer money, all is right in the governments eyes.
People from other provinces, no doubt!
But open borders
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