Life inside a Vancouver single room occupancy (SRO) building
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2023
- When police cleared out the homeless encampments in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in April, where did people go? How did they find housing? The questions led CBC to derelict hotels, where rooms are rented by the month.
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My son lives in BC housing controlled rent in Van. He knows of many who work full time, but still can't afford housing. And yet, when low cost housing is proposed, people say: "not in my back yard" Well, like it or not, they already are in your back yard. Rent controlled and monitored housing, or people literally using your yard as a toilet? The working poor cannot afford Vancouver rent.
This is gotta be real scary to deal with everyday. Becoming homeless. I couldn't imagine how they do this.. waking up every morning to the end of the day. Trying to survive. Could be any time you'll end up real homeless on the streets. Than what.. some of us are very lucky. not to be homeless..
I meet many people who live in SRO's, Their stories are harrowing and it's not the SRO that's the problem, it's some of the people that live there that make their lives hell. The good people are bullied and harassed day in day out. They need to be monitored by healthcare professionals and police.
The main cause of homelessness is bad behaviour, then renovictions and finally falling behind on your rent. You are right! It is some of the people that live in SROs and their friends that make life difficult for the good tenants.
This is allowed in Canada. The Lefts crowing jewel
I visit several non profit building on the DTES for work and can 100% confirm the conditions is even worse than this at many of them. The smell of death is rampant in most. Rooms so hoarded you can’t even open the door. Some tenants change their locks but in an emergency there’s no rescuing them because of that which is scary. Drugs are everywhere, needles etc.
Is there anything you've experienced that's really changed your perspective on the DTES?
@@skachor A lot of the people living in the SRO’s go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for themselves, but unfortunately they are stuck in the never ending cycle of addiction as well making it difficult.
Also, I’ve had many educated conversations with the people down there. Many assume that those living down there are stupid, uneducated, junkies etc. 50% don’t want to be there.
Natural selection
this is not poverty...
... this is artifical hell
@@1Gun There's nothing natural about a society that allows its citizens to live in squalor.
Unfortunately I have been in a few of these buildings. The first thing that hits you is the overwhelming smell. It is a rancid mixture of urine, feces, vomit and worse. Completely unbearable. Somehow people get used to that and live there. Then there is the lack of privacy, you could see into all of the rooms through the gaping spaces between the door frames and walls. And forget about locking your room. I've talked to people, (men and women), who just cower under their blanket as people will come in and pilfer whatever they want. Praying that no attention is paid to them, which often happens. Meanwhile the general public looks away or makes up stories about the poor souls who are forced to live in this squalor. Gee, what a nice caring christian society we live in, aint it wonderful.
Thank you for showing this side of things. It humanizes the people and situation better.
Nothing was said about what they do to earn a living. Clearly on drugs.
They were not as sympathetic a picture as you may believe.
@@WiseOwl_1408 I'm sure you have your reasons for thinking they're high. Maybe statistically you'd be making a safe bet.
But the words they spoke are still the truth. Would you argue they don't deserve a bathroom because they may be high? Or a front door? Or just the conditions seen in the video?
You're not one of those SRO owners are you?!
Everyone has choices... do better or don't. Live with consequences with them
@@skachor the speed they talk is a dead give away 😅
@@WiseOwl_1408 so you not only dehumanize people based on what they do for a living, its the first thing that comes to your 'mind' on what it means to be human. btw I think the couple didnt present that well as they have got away with squatting for a while and seems strange to me going on the news bitching as squatters lol.
This could happen to so many, with the food prices and cost of living rising every day! I have a good job. Honestly, if my landlord sold the place I'm in, my one pay cheque wouldn't cover a month's rent! Our government has failed us.
Not really especially if you didn't make an emergency savings account with all the money you made.
Maybe they should put the addicted people in treatment instead of giving them more drugs
We can ask the tooth fairy. Simple job.
@@cz2301 Alberta is doing it, stop voting in the communists and things might change
So the landlord spraypainted the walls and broke everything? Gee, I wonder why nobody wants to dump money into fixing them when residents turn around and ransack them.
It sounds like non-residents did that because the front door was missing.
Yes!!! It's society's fault!!! Won't someone think of the drug addicts?! /s
The landlords live off welfare payment rent why they don't care either except to make condos and allow criminal activity in their properties some even get kickbacks. Some have serious charges that never get prosecuted so the desperate mentally ill homeless are their bread and butter meal ticket for taxes gotta keep them down to get that hand out.
@@questioner1596 Exactly. When did tenants have to start buying front doors for their buildings? 🙄
Terrible conditions. From my experience having a friend in a similar place, its the residents that ruin it. Hes a nurse now though. Didnt accept living that way.
What a wonderful society has been created in Canada, I'm sure more of the same policy will be able to fix it!
Well, bc is experimenting with drug policy, so I'm not sure why you'd say it's more of the same.
Not that I expect it to work, but they're doing a pretty unique thing legalizing possession of small amounts of drugs.
Not unique the US is doing it to
@@ArthurLarsen100 Centrally controlled
run for office
@@ArthurLarsen100 No the US gives them tainted crack to try to dispose of them, its a little different.
Vancouver and it's elected officials cannot fix this problem, it's a cancer -like matrix built on trauma over generation, the drugs just keep getting worse and cheaper. An opportunity for recovery and a cohesive follow through with mental health services and housing as a trifecta could help, for those that can and want to get help. If a person has mental illness and a drug problem it is very difficult to access enough lucidity to even ask for help, and needs advocacy from someone on the outside who is invested. How would anyone escaping this hell otherwise?
The amount of money the government has, if they WILL, housing and drug crises can be solved in less than a year. It is just that if they solve these bigger issues, what promises will they make in the next election.
Attacked by the matrix
@@bytesizedscreencasts what are these amazing 100% effective things we can do easily? Build a home for each one with what money?
@@bytesizedscreencasts Totally agree, Every year we got lots of rich immigrants buying houses, paying high property taxes, but every year the government r not doing their jobs. The government is so incompetence or so corrupted.
Maybe don't touch drugs and stop the cry, many has been told as kids not to touch drugs, if u don't understand simple thing not to touch drugs then u will learn it hard way 😂
I know Bob from an old job I had and he a pretty good guy! Hope you figure things out, Bob!
Could anyone start a gofundme for this couple? It takes alot of courage to let cbc in with cameras. I hope we can figure out a way to get this couple a fresh & safe new beginning.
I don't understand why drug addicts and people with mental illness are given so much freedom to be homeless and carefree. An institution outside of Vancouver needs to be established to help these individuals get back into society and deal with the addiction. No, this is should not be an option, it should be absolutely mandatory. I am tired of downtown smelling like piss all the time, I am tired of these druggies breaking into my car for their next dope hit
I pay $725 a month for a room in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I receive a $335 portable housing benefit from the Ontario Government. The Housing Up program funded by the Ontario government helped me find affordable housing. My first Housing Up application got declined without cause when I was at the shelter at Mission Services.
I hope all is well. Thanks for sharing your story.
@cuja97what did China do? It’s nice to see a fellow Romanian. I’m Romanian-Canadian my mother is from Romania
Maybe have housing for those who want to get out of their hopeless situation and want to get clean with a 6 month trial bases that offers support and guildance . It is clearly the drugs that is the major problem, with disability, mental health , poverty and unaffordable rents contributing to the rest of this dire situation.
Due to high demand and government-imposed low supply.
it is best for all to house the higher drug consuming portion of the homeless population in druggie SROs and low barrer shelters - unless you want more drugged out tent cities on sidewalks instead.
This “too bad, so sad” attitude that society projects on to people who fall on hard times must change. No child dreams of this kind of life for themselves as an adult. True, there are those who do not want help, but I believe many do. Society needs to increase social supports for those on the edge so that they do not fall down this hole, especially those with children. It is so much harder (and expensive to society) to come up from having lost nothing than to put extra supports in place when one’s situation is a bit more stable (e.g., not yet homeless but could very well be soon). The trick is getting the politicians on board. Most only offer bandaid solutions for optics. The poor are not a revenue-producing entity for politicians or governments, so they are not pressured for more systemic change. People need to stand up before all the middle class disappears, and the 21st century Victorian era begins.
WOW! Why doesn't the government build new buildings for people! They got the resources! They have known this is a problem for many years!
Because the new buildings will get destroyed within a year or two.
I asked them (email letter to my MP) to use the budget surplus to buy a housing developer going bankrupt (coromandel) but l got zero response
why should they use taxpayers money to continue to supply these loers with drug dens? Get a grip
Yes and build me a place too....
Governments don't actually build anything. That's contracted to private developers and construction companies.
Seems like substance abuse is the #1 problem.
Dumb people are the problem
It's not housing prices? High rents? Massive immigration driving down wages and jacking up housing costs and access to healthcare?
No, the #1 problem is what led to the substance abuse. Which is usually, an unstable upbringing/abusive parents/caregivers. Traumatic early-life experiences is what usually leads to drug use. Plus mental health issues.
@@boneyn3661not everyone do drugs just bc they go thru hardship or trauma. They chose to do drugs. I hate ppl using mental illness as excuse. Geez. They're just spoiled and lazy. With free health system, they are worse then those of the States.
@@boneyn3661
Those are not valid excuses. Plenty of people have gone through that and yet still don't do drugs.
There are so many cracks in the systems to fall through. No one should have to live like this in order to have shelter and be able to keep their things. Someone needs to set these people up with a situation that inspires hope for all. Someone with deep pockets who wants to leave this world better than they found it.
Who do you think creates those living conditions...?
@@nickthaskater Greedy, neglectful landlords who are taking the money and letting properties crumble. Greedy, neglectful governments who declare Canada has a stellar social safety net while failing the people who need help, claiming they just don't have the money, while spending billions on businesses and banks that improve the cash flow for the wealthy.
they could always work like the rest of us...just a thought
Set them up then saint blue
@@deborahbarton3026 what do you do for a living?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for showing the lives and suffering of Vancouver's DTES. Please show more stories. There is so much to tell. You are breaking trail and breaking the silence of DTES.
oh really well they won't talk to me because I'm not a druggie
Zero accountability for their own lives. No job. On drugs. People are less sympathetic than you might think
What's worse is the hard working, tax paying, families having to live next to these SROs
@@JonMalach Your tired cliche of a thought shows that you have no clue about poverty, abuse and trauma. Try empathy and compassion instead of dehumanizing your neighbors.
@@bouffezlegumes8611
That has done nothing except exacerbate the problem. How about some tough love?
I want to help these people soooo badly and I wish I could do all sorts of things for them, but I just can't risk donating my money to people who don't want to change or who don't want to help themselves first. If they can prove that they truly want to be sober, I'd be more than happy and willing to support & help them along in their process...
They need to help themselves. They need to move to another city and get a better paying job. Vancouver is not for the poor.
What the hell 700 for this!!! Sickening and people are profiting from this. What a disgrace. Please keep reporting on this. In Vancouver where rich people are living in houses that can fit two families is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE
The city politicians are focused on more important things like more bike lanes (WTF??) and overpriced apartments> I could just vomit grrrrrrrrrrrr
I also live in an SRO (Standing Room Only) place. Everyone here sleeps like a bat. : )
Heroin is a hell of a drug.
Nah, just dumb people will learn it hard way
I am sorry to hear it what is the address of that sro
PP4PM !! Let's go Canada !!
Why would you repair anything? The next mentally unstable tenant is just going to eff it up again
They need to be in care.. forced if need be.. , not dumped in a dilapidated room
Exactly! Its not as if forcing them to quit drugs wouldn't work, right? That sort of tactic is a proven way to get the results you're looking for. And maybe forced sterilisation while we are at it, I mean we don't want junkies making more baby junkies do we? And if they don't get and stay clean and sober...we can always just start building camps for them. Toss 'em in, lock the gates, and leave the rest to nature. Right?
Sad, no human should live this way or on the streets. Who did that art work?
They complain about the conditions but these people destroy these
Buildings. There is new affordable housing buildings that have been put up through non profit organizations and they are just like studio condos. Fully furnished;free laundry, 1-2 free meals a day. Only 6 months after the building was finished it was filled with bed bugs, mice, cockroaches. These people tweak out and go garbage picking and bring all kinds of junk back to the building and trash these buildings. And then play the victim
I wonder what other countries do not evict people who don't pay rent? I think that's a very bad policy. If this policy works we should have less people suffering. The government should bulid more free houses for them if they really want to help rather than putting the responsiblities to the owners. Landlords needs to pay mortgages too. Every year we got lots of rich immigrants buying houses, paying high property taxes, but every year the government r not doing their jobs....now we even got drugs problem everywhere, even in schools. I just smell corruption.
This is why my family and I go to work everyday. The CBC and millions of these young people are counting on me to support them.
Pretty damn insulting isnt it....wouldnt be so insulting if we could see positive results, for once
It's all a lucrative industry down there - from the street level drug trade to the government level social organizations.
sad :(.....
The way we just dispose of people for the profit of the ALREADY RICH in our society is disgusting, We think we are so modern and advanced and decent but when it comes down to it we are sick our priorities are sick.
Then go down there on you days off and volunteer to help these folks if you are such a great person
OH WAIT! That's someone elses responsibility isn't it
Its always someone elses fault
@@colinrussell2017 Individual action cant solve a problem like this, be realistic.
@@greg6500 A huge chunk of landlords in BC and Ontario are normal people too that are still trying to pay off their mortgage
@@James-eq8cq No one's going after the grannies with the retirement property.
These people are addicts though... They need to go to treatment...
of course drug addiction is the underlying issue here.
Nah
My landlord decided to give me a n12 notice in my duplex. My sister lived upper and i am lower main floor. She didn't file with LTB just fedex mail with wrong address and didn't offer me the upstairs when my sister moved on the 7th. She rented it already, and wants to move into my unit. I have NO WHERE to go, I'm 26 years old with two sons 9 and 6yr old. No family, nothing. I applied for over hundred without one reply in the 6 weeks since i gotten the invalid notice. Have lawyers retained and have a strong case since all the legality issues that came along with improper notice, and not offering the upstairs as compensation. So my heart goes to everyone that has housing ripped from under them.. I didn't do ANYTHING wrong, lived here going on 7 years never had one late direct deposit rent payment, not one utility bill in arrears, nothing. I have a credit actually on my enwin bill of +$1789.00. SELFISH AND GREED OF THE LANDLORD IS PUSHING ME OUT TO BE HOMELESS, LOOSE MY CHILDREN DUE TO NO HOUSING, THE ONLY WAY OUT IS IN A BOX OR INCINERATOR. 💔 😔 TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. WINDSOR ONTARIO IS HELL. DO NOT MOVE HERE OR EVEN VISIT. TRUDEAU THANK YOU FOR DESTROYING OUR HOUSING MARKET. YOU SURE DID DO A NUMBER ON US IN ONTARIO.
Do you use?
So who owns these buildings???
not the druggies that are allowed to destroy them
Slumlords
In Fort Nelson BC, it's $550.00 a month for a two bedroom apartment 🤔
With no jobs
@@celineo9445 Seniors as far away as Ontario are moving there for the cheap rent.
@@celineo9445 Pretty sure these people don't have jobs
And work there?? Thought so.
@@celineo9445 dont need a job at 550 lol
Ample resources exist to help these people; most just don't want to give up their zero-responsibility drug life. The decision to quit the drug life must come at the personal level.
The reporter starts off with an agenda then tries to get viewers to agree with that agenda I would not want any of these tenants in my house or even neighbourhood.
This is crazy 🤪 in a wealthy city.
It’s a problem only fixable by the government, but where’s the political incentive?
Good job NDP, the politicians are making money, they have a home
We did most things at the office at home for a year. Give the homeless the offices. Problem solved
Unfortunately the housing problems and the drug problems make each worse. The drugs we have here are unpredictable and amphetamines cause irregular behaviours. People living with addiction can’t take care of a home or themselves without help. So just giving them a space is not working, and having them all live together is even worse. Plus these slumlords actively keeping the units in a state of decay. The only way out is to stop the influx of drugs and to try to help people out of addiction.
How come i personally feel CBC is not helping with this issue, but part of this societal issue? 😮
A wise man once said "show me the incentive and ill show you the outcome"
Housing is not an investment opportunity or a privilege, its a right. If not everywhere, at least in a climate like canadas.
Housing is a privilege.
@@shauncameron8390 That depends on where you live, but you're right. Currently in Canada it is a privilege. That's a moral failing when you look at Canada's climate.
Why not stop mass immigration?
Immigration drives up the demand for housing...and thus, increases the price of it.
in Vancouver housing is a scam pure and simple. Right down to Apartheidist Eugenicist useful idiots like Aaron Gunn and Adam Park Rats whipping up lynch mobs against those hurt most by the SCAM
Ive given up and will tough it out till I get BC housing or 10k for a decent little Tupperware sailboat
@@Disrtict6 if you know housing in Vancouver is a scam, why not go someplace where it isn't a scam?
Well part of the issue is we are a capitalist society, which boils down to, "money drives everything." Unless we are willing to go down a partial socialist system where low income housing can be mixed into high cost residence there is very little we can do. Landlords also faces high taxes, high overhead, etc... We should not be surprised that if they can make extra income they wouldn't take it. Yes Landlords are in a more advantageous position but there were sacrifice in order for them to get there.
The old days of generational wealth has moved on from Land to stocks in large corporations and equity that control a vast portion of wealth. I highly doubt that these Landlords are raking it in with these low income housing. With no incentive to continue running a low income housing it is no wonder they will sell to a developer or a flipper.
While we hate the current situation that these people are in unless we revamp the entire way we do business we are going to just continue with this problem with small band aids not actually fix it for good.
How many of these men even try to be serious about finding work?
I don't think so lol. I am sure it's just inconsistent temp agency jobs. There companies looking for labor that pay decent for people who show up for work.
Nobody
It's pretty hard without a bathroom...I know Bob and he works so shut up silver platter boy...
The problem is drug addiction.
But the people went out of their own way to do drugs.
Yes, they have money to pay their addiction and they have no respect for the place they live. Landlords pay heavy taxes, no one ask them if they can pay or not.
It’s very expensive to repair everything these days!!
Sukhjinder Kang They have $$ ? They rob, steal and prostitute to keep their addiction going. The only thing that matters to them is getting their next fix ? Do you really think any human being wants to live like this. On the edge of death every day. These people are very sick and need help
Also we work hard, pay tax to government, save money from net income than buy property, we pay property tax from our net income. Government pay money from our taxes to these kind of people and social workers .
Social workers creating jobs them self .
They should educated people to respect the place they live.
Government should pay all damages they do to properties not home owners!!
We need to do protest in Victoria.
Home owners are always loosers
Oh, boohoo won't any one think of the landlords?!
Probably Chinese owner to.
SO now everyone can have a good laugh at how we live. And yes, we can hear the laughter all the way down in the Downtown Eastside.
Why do you think anyone is laughing? 😢
@@slsilver481 Bevause if people actually cared they’d vote for politicians that would actually fix the problems.
@@rickybobby5153 Some of us do. The problem is that all the politicians are landowners now with tons of properties. So they have the interests of other wealthy landowners at heart.
@@rickybobby5153 which ones? The ones who want to jail them or the ones who want to destroy the economy to feel moral?
Who is the goddamn owner of this rat trap?? SMH.
People whos living there are rats literally
Chinese.
We as humans need to stop collecting things, cause we move on eventually one day. Over whelming to get rid of junk.
Trauma can lead to problematic collecting.
@@homebody61
But it doesn't.
No hate at all for not paying rent when there is NO BATHROOM OR DOOR???? What next? No windows?? The walls?? Insanity!! And to think these are the people who are fortunate enough to find housing in the first place.
Do better. I am sure two adults can afford a one bedroom place, bathroom etc. Choices and priorities
Ummm no ppl. Can not atleast In Ontario a 1 bedroom in some placeses can cost close to 3 grand a month 😅
@@rebeccamcguire2798 called working 😉
@@rebeccamcguire2798
Umm. Yes.
@@CookiesCritterCare
And taking responsibility for your life.
@@jaya-squishiehuntr019 I'm sorry for your job situation. It must be hard these days for you. I hope you dont have to go without in life
I heard gingerale and crackers help with vomit, you should try it
All Politicians are to blame especially the City with the horrible Mayor Simms wants only super overpriced Apartments He will not build anything affordable
High real estate values and building costs ensure that nothing affordable will ever be built in Vancouver city limits.
@@shauncameron8390 Pure greed, when your rent triples exponentially you will not think that Politicians, Developers are o.k., they are lying greedy bastards that get away with it because people let them, there are a lot of people working full-time jobs but living out of their cars. Because they can not afford the rent.
@@alanlopez5971
Your rent triples because the property taxes, insurance premiums, mortgages and interest, utility bills, etc. triples.
@@shauncameron8390Your rent will triple too so enjoy since you love Developers so much!
@@alanlopez5971
I don't have to love developers to understand the high rents are largely caused by high taxes and fees.
Cbc can you interview both sides to each narrative? Maybe reach out to the landlords and talk about the rising costs they have... You know big picture.
2:52
No one cares about the rich lanlords with millions extorting mentally ill people
$700/mth for that?!?
@sjt_w_stot sounds like a job would help
@@WiseOwl_1408 Yeah that helps me keep.the lights on
@Langton Industries
Been reading your comments and all I can think is "Damn, I'd love to meet this person face-to-face, preferably in a dark alley.."
What Sob story, No one wants to ask to "Tenants" how they ended up there to begin with. Ask yourself if you would fix anything after it had been broken on purpose and ruined day after day to collect measly rent. Personal responsibility and accountability is the only way these people get out of this mess. It's the only thing that separates the working class from being these people.
@cuja97
And then a decade after that, 45 million Chinese people starved to death.
More SROs need to do this! 🙏🏻
What was the point of showing yet another horrid bdlg and circumstance without a solution.
Theres barrels of Cash in this City.
Maybe skip moving the Art Gallery and get everything that can renovated done and more housing built 1st & Foemost!!!.
maybe because it's not just a few bleeding hearts that have a say in how our taxpayers money is spent. Maybe us hard workers are fed up with these losers that can't care for themselves because they don't want to.Why should we have to pay so they can get high all day and destroy properties that aren't theirs?
@Donnell O Well with putting the destructive ones in soft jail like lock up w enforced rehab training.
Theres lots of addicts need housing that dont destroy the Bdlg.
Omg awful 😢😢😢
it wouldnt matter its so corupt thats it even if you were the one eal person they would call a audition for theyre actors to be you
when you give people with addictions more money, they will use more drugs and then trash their homes and then get evicted. people with addictions need to have their government checks managed by case managers. otherwise, the money that they get from the government (tax payers) will go into drugs.
How is this allowed!!!!
Those Canadians who can help, don't give a cr%p this country has men, women and children on the street and no one cares! Do what you have to, to survive.
WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA....
That should be places we put politicians than they would see how great a job there doing disgusting
they still do drugs and his girl freaks out when she doesnt have a cigarette
where does she freak out?
addiction can be hard to wean off.
keep on judging from the lucky spot you find yourself in, for now
@@mellowrockmusic❤ ANYONE can end up unhoused. TRAUMATIC EVENTS OR A FEW PAYCHECKS AWAY DOESN'T JUST APPLY TO ONE CLASS OF PEOPLE OR INCOME.
Don't do drugs
I just lost a friend of nearly 12 years to drugs recently. RIP, Michelle.
This is why you make good decisions in life, and you don't enable people who live a parasitical lifestyle and refuse serious help even though they're offered numerous times. It would be nonsensical to have sympathy for those who refuse needed help and refuse to change (thus, the definition of insanity). People lie in the bed they make, this is the reality of existence.
And don’t do d- in the 1st place
harsh truth
Exactly.
Agreed 100%...we could all be useless junkies, then what?
no one pays rent so theirs not going to be a nice place to live. Who would want to be a landlord and rent to these animals
justin trudeau did that
Not all SRO's are as bad as this
Justin T is responsible for this mess.
Do you think the DTES was all sunshine and rainbows before 2015?
You can see they all got drug problems just help them with rehab
Np sympathy for drug users. Please
Kindness
I thought Justin Trudeau takes care of these people. Way to go dude.
FOR DTES THIS IS NOT NEWS//////
700.00 rent for that ?!!! That is robbery ! The city allows this corruption ? . God help these people !
This is America ! Shame on the rich who could help change these situations !
i dont live there ill never get anything outta it take it everyone else did it is not something fixable i had so many using my name theyvdo itvon purpose no one believe you or care and it went both ways those are all seized prkperties
How dare the person who's invested their money & risked it wants to kick out all the filthy drug addicts from its property & raise the rent so they can protect there investment #meth
I don't feel sorry for these druggies, I'm sorry, not sorry
A lot of them brought it upon themselves.
Poverty pimps...
Moral of the story: Don’t do drugs. Even if the government gives them to you
Literally.. simple as that, dumb people will learn
Drugs destroy.
Start moving them to the west side.
Should sue thr landlord. Do a water test show its unsafe sue
No money..no ability to sue. Bad actors prey on the vulnerable because they know this.
Then they shut the place down and their on the street
Trudeau's Canada. Shame.
If the landlord gave me a eviction notice, I would thank him. I would be out in 3 days rather then 3 months.
same here. mine is a surrey slumlord.
I'm down to pay more taxes (or at least get corporations and politicians to) if people in bad situations get to have a home. Who's with me
I'm with you but the 1 percent of the 1 percent won't allow it.
Maybe corporations and politicians should pay their fair share instead
Don't. As a resident of the Downtown Eastside I can assure you that hundreds of millions already flow into the area STRAIGHT into the pockets of people who don't live there. Those organizations are based around repeat customers, which is why they never cleaned up the area or moved us out even though they had more than enough funds over the years to do so. Cry for investigations into WHERE the money goes, because not one cent of it actually goes to the residents.
Yea, giving the government EVEN MORE money is gonna fix this. Who the hell do you think got us here?
@@philaryclinton2912 So your solution is to give even less? LOL! Your Christianity is showing.
No one cares.
Move to cheaper city, in a cheaper province and get a job!
This problem IS getting worse in the smaller cities like Kamloops, Kelowna. Those residents are pissed!
@@colinrussell2017
All in close proximity to Vancouver.
Why are they sticking in vancouver tho? Why not move out to chilliwack or somewhere inexpensive? Instead of burninf 100s of millions year, why aren't the government invest in inexpensive area and create quality jobs? Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world!!
The way I have a nice place is I work
I didn't realize how bad Vancouver was and how much we were used to seeing homelessness and drug use in public until my co-worker from Calgary came on a work trip here and was taking a walk in the evening outside her hotel and saw a man lighting himself on fire....I pray for these people. May God/The Universe bless and help each and every one of them because this is no way to live. I pray that anyone who is currently looking for affordable rent in the lower mainland finds a place within their budget. 🤍🤍🤍
stop trashing the place = nice place to live , hard to wrap your head around the concept right?