as a ex addict. we must make life less comfortable for the addict to finally say sobriety would be better. making it easier just keeps them loaded. this is a fact
As an ex addict, I know that nothing stops you from finding your next fix, and resorting to violence and anger because your body is writhing in pain when coming down, is a common symptom. Also having a sister that is a part of the studies that show safe injection sites and legalization of drugs work, help me understand greater that these human beings can be helped and saved and not with cruelty, but with sympathy and compassion. 9 years sober and you have a lot to learn.
Would've loved to have seen them talk to business owners and residents of the area who are actually working and paying taxes. Maybe their perspective should be heard as well?
@@brsn2991 I’m always sort of taken aback when they say we need to destigmatize drug addiction. Like, why? It’s horrible. And also we define people as addicts like this is the best they can achieve, I feel like this denies them humanity in some way. These people are in hell and instead of investing more heavily in rehabilitation we legalize the drugs that are killing them and create places for them to get high.
We don't bother you buddy....and besides, if a business wants to save that extra money on rent because of the area, then I suggest they deal with BOTH the FLORA and the FAUNA of the neighborhood that contributes to that cheap rent eh!
@@nunyabidness4784 a lot of the proprietors in the area were there before things got out of control. They have paid huge fees to do tenant improvements to the spaces they are leasing and moving their businesses is not really an option as they have invested so heavily in their spaces. I'm genuinely curious why you feel that certain members of society have an inherent right to disrupt other member's ability to make a living.
When you create an environment that makes it easier for addiction and harder for bylaw enforcement, you get debauchery and a whole truck loads of public health issues. The whole reason behind a functioning civil society is to obey and participate in basic laws that govern the populas. Yes these street need help, but not at the expense of ruining communities.
When you break down civil society you increase dependency on government and bureaucrats, a self fulfilling prophecy that benefits governments and bureaucrats not the people.@@Tigeryuzeyin
It fascinates me that Canadians are dealt advice by foreigners nowadays. And we don't speak to the efficacy of cultural dilution at all... Just more pandering @@lingli314
My wife works in this neighbourhood - and I'll tell ya who is much safer now that there isn't a consistent hoard of questionable activity all condensed in a small area... Thanks Ken Sim.
@@bradcanning875 They should go live in the bush. There are companies and people willing to pay top tax dollars for the real estate these people want to camp out in front of.
I challenge any person endorsing the "compassionate" point of view when it comes to homelessness and addicts, to live one year in such places. Where you walk out your front door to the smell of warm urine and human feces. Where you must watch your step as you dodge the used needles littering the sidewalks. Where if you dare leave your car in the street you can be welcome to a broken car window and all of your belongings stolen to fund someone's drug habit. Where you dare not leave your home after the sun sets for fear of being attacked so someone can your 20 dollar bill. Lets go further... Try raising a family in the area with young children exposed to the dangers and filth. Try running a business where if goods are stolen the police won't respond if they werent stolen with the use of a weapon. When you this, then maybe your compassionate point of view will hold some water. Otherwise step off your high horse and side with the law abiding citizen that have to endure these conditions as part of their daily lives.
Your efforts to link addict and homeless because the media only shows Hastings street is an example of your warped mind and lack of humanity. There are many working homeless living in cars. The billionaire owners who enriched themselves for decades off government rents paid directly to them let the building these people live in deteriorate until condemned. One paid the legal fees of the Air India terrorist trial. That's what you support.
@@bradcanning875 That is utterly false. The connection between homelessness and addictions is ironclad. There are stats that were released by the city of Seattle should you want to check them out that showed over 80% of the homeless polled were addicted to at least one drug. They also correlated the crime in the downtown area with drug addiction. The top 50 criminals in downtown, who accounted for 90% of the crime, had a 100% addiction rate. Please check your facts because it appears you are the one who has swallowed up what the left media has spit out. Homelessness and drug addiction are intimately connected and to assert otherwise is to be blind of the data currently available.
exactly Russell! Tax payers & productive members of society shouldn’t have to deal w/ human waste as they walk on a sidewalk to go & support their fav shop. While that shop owner has to deal w/ these ppl who decide to live, eat, do drugs, drink, poop, piss right in front of their business as they try to attract customers.
@@Trish150655 Agreed. It's not about treating those less fortunate with revulsion, but treating them with some dignity should not have to include everyone else suffering. Not sure exactly the best solution but I am sure it is not siding exclusively with the homeless/addicted population at the expense of everyone else. The overarching approach should be peace and safety in the streets, yet this appears to be of secondary concern.
So he doesn't stay in a shelter because he gets robbed there, but then the next thing he says is that he gets robbed on the streets. 🧐 Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that there are things they can get away with on the street that they cannot in a shelter.
@@educationsolution9766 no, some shelters are large spaces with groups sleeping together and little security. People can steal from each other in those places. But the real issue is you can't come and go, they have curfews and you can't be drunk or get high to stay in these shelters. That is the real reason for not staying in one: shelters don't enable a drug user.
Those who need help and are not in control of their faculties need to be institutionalized and rehabilitated where possible. Those who are in control of their faculties need to learn to be responsible citizens: we can help them for a while, they need to be sheltered while they get back on their feet, but they must want to or there shouldn’t be endless handouts for them. Those who peddle substances for abuse need to have the full weight of the law on them with long incarceration periods. This to me is the most compassionate way to deal with this issue at a societal level, bearing in mind both the needs and the finite resources we have. We as a society will collapse under the weight of this problem if left to continue as is.
The problems is the one in controls are the ones peddling the substances..hear how most addict started their journey toward this path. With oxy/xanax..opium anti depressamt or painkiller..maybe you should follow the money trail and who actually profit from folks being miserable and being able to take control over their life or isolate fhem. Vancouver is now selling those things that completly destroy people legally..giving everytjing you need to do em with freely. Life of dopeheads never been this easy since the trudeau gov..so ye most dopehead or broken people wont stop at this point as theres no incentive for em to stop..theyre fed..they got places to live..most of em got phones and access to free wifi..if theres no incentive for the pleb to live a good life and work hard..then yes mozt of em would just end ul abusing some sort of substances. We got to make it poasible for poor folks to find good paying jobs and afford housing again. So folks have an actual reason to get up in the morning. If the working one is almost in the same situation as the one doing dope and not working..then ye those jobs dont seems really interesting anymore. The complete assault on the middle class that happened worldwide for the last couple of years kinda led to this situation.
when you hear from one side saying that the shelters are all full, and the other side saying that there are sufficient shelters for everyone, obviously they contradict each other. Then as the journalist you need to go investigate further which one tells the truth, right? start from asking Mr mayor for the locations of all those shelters and walking into the shelters to see whether or not they really are all full; asking those who lost their tends on the street which shelter they have tried to go to. I'm sure your professor at the college has taught you how to work as a profession of public communication. How easy it is to put out the cheap empathy.
The mayor was simply lying. Check the press conference the City Manager gave the day of the decampment, where they admitted there were not enough spaces for everyone. Then check the post media reports following where they quote UGM, the actual shelter, that turns away people every day. Use your brain.
We visited some of the shelters. The inner city ones were crowded. There were some a bit further away from downtown and all the mess and people do not want to be there.
Terrible reporting! Why don't you go and interview the businesses and residents of DTES and ask them how they feel about the whole situation? Do the folks that complain about the decampment work or live there and pay income/property taxes? If not, then they're just commenting on something that's not really their real everyday lives' concern. You should ask people that pay rent or mortgage to live in those neighborhoods and their whole community has turned into trash because of what's going on here!
Nice try.If you had a clue you would know this problem is the result of 2 billionaire families who made hundreds of millions off these people over a couple decades in their slum buildings without ever putting a dime into them even though they received huge tax breaks to do do. Then the government had to give them current property values to buy them and condemn them. Those profits funded the legal fees for the Air India terrorists.
Yes! Let’s talk to the ppl whose lives & livelihood are affected! These ppl are hard workers, doing their best in this day just trying to get customers into their shops so they can pay for running a business! These ppl make jobs & if no one is coming in because their is someone who popped a tent in front of their business & who has decided to use the area as their own personal bathroom & drug den as well, that’s lost business!! I have compassion for the ppl who are trying to help themselves & get back on their feet. There are SOBER shelters to go to, there is drug rehab. ect. Help is out there IF they want it.
Preach it brotha, she only reported the street people. How about getting the opinion of the hard working Canadians who pay taxes which in turn support her CBC salary
Why does everyone treat this as a homeless problem, it's not, it's an addictions problem. Stop looking at the wrong problem! And this report is one sided, talk to the business owners, residents in the area also.
I know right? All the reports only interview the homeless people and not the residents living in the area. My coworker who lives in the area had his car broken into a couple times and he said it's a relief that the government is actually doing something about this.
Is sad as it is to say these people are so far gone mentally, it would take a miracle for them to get sober and leave Hastings. It’s hard enough for the average functional Joe to get sober let alone someone in the streets doing fentanyl regularly. It’s too bad the gov doesn’t build mental health facilities where they can reside. Focussing on affordable Housing isn’t the solution in my opinion..
Build them? They are standing empty after the Socreds and BC Liberals closed them and set them all to the streets. Educate yourself. They are currently being renovated for use. The BC Liberals let the billionaire owners of 6 of the buildings who housed these people get directly paid $450 a month to let the buildings deteriorate until condemned. The billionaire owners also used that money to pay the legal fees of the Air India terrorists. That's the history of how this occurred. I worked in the Balmoral and watch it all happen.
Well if there was affordable housing less of them would likely end up on the street in the first place there are lots of invisible homeless too couch surfing and such and all the lines of people at food banks are because those people can't afford rent AND food. I agree though about once they are on the street it's more difficult to deal with their other problems maybe they develop their drug problems being on the street too no other way to cope. I think a survey should be done to find out what the causes are too but obviously the shelters are not the solution for everyone either because as the first man said they get robbed and it's only temporary anyway so they can't get comfortable there I am sure they all have trust issues either been victims of crime or some are criminals themselves just all lumped in together because they are poor.
A decade ago there was talk about remodeling the old riverview location into a state of the art grounds for detox and rehab, but only one small building is now back in operation...
@@phoenixman8569 yeah I remember that, and I saw the construction going on for the new building. You would think the current liberal gov would do more service wise.
What about the poor people who have to pay rent or try to run a business in that neighborhood? I'm sick of hearing from the druggies ruining the streets and complaining about their handouts!!
EXACTLY!! they do NOT have the right to infringe on other ppls right to make a living. Stop setting up ur tent where tax payers are trying to run a business & where customers shouldn’t have to step over them to get into a business.
I live there and I just feel bad for the people suffering from mental illness and addiction living on the street. Yes it smells bad. No it’s not unsafe to walk around at night.
They slowly allowed this to get out of hand, then tried to change it overnight. Alberta has a much better approach with short and long term treatment options not safe injection sites.
the reporter said all the shelters were full but then only cited one that was full, i feel like there's a big information gap missing - what other shelters are full exactly and did the reporter go to see the shelters in person? i believe the people that refuse shelters when they say the shelters are worse than the street - but how recently have they visited? a week ago, a month, a year or more? and how about going and speaking to the people using the shelters right now, today, for their perspective? do they regret taking shelter, do they wish they were still on the street? we only hear from the ones who refuse. weapons offences were way up in the area, the tents were being used as armories for who knows what. never mind the fire risks, what about the criminal activity and violence, was the city just supposed to let it fester and continue? i usually like the CBC, but when it comes to the DTES it's never balanced reporting. their newsletter had some really important info a while back: Vancouver has 25% of the Metro area's population, and yet is responsible for almost 75% of the social housing responsibility. 33 of B.C. Housing’s 57 supportive rental housing sites in Metro Vancouver are either in the Downtown Eastside, or a 10min walk away. that just makes the vulnerable people easy prey for the predators that lurk in this community. Getting rid of the tents is not a complete solution, no one is saying that - Canada has to do more, BC has to do more, Metro Vancouver has to do more - but leaving the tents up and allowing things to get worse is not an option.
That’s good that this decampment is happening. This is for the better safety and function of the community. Sometimes painful strains need to be endured to heal.
There will never be a perfect time to do it. You could wait for Truedue's grandson to become a PM, but nothing will happen. The new mayor is doing his job to improve this area significantly, the rest of the issues should be taken care of by other politicians and experts who just talk.
Why not interview the merchants and others who live and work in that area and actually produce a balanced report? Ask more hard questions about why the homeless preferred being robbed on the streets instead of the shelters? Is it because they actually have rules to follow when living in the shelters and they don’t want to follow them? It’s my opinion that if the so many well paid (relatively speaking)social workers did their jobs properly instead of complaining when the city comes up with a solution, there would not be so many people living on the streets. Where does that $1,000,000,000 go every year?
While I agree with you about a balanced report I have to say you are wrong about social workers being 'well paid'...especially the ones on the front lines.
@@husg13just had a look at Indeed job sites. Wages range from $45k to $60k per year plus benefits for the workers. Compare that to the average pay of the hard working ladies selling vegetables in Chinatown who often work 12 hours a day 7 days a week with probably below minimum wage and no benefits while having to put up with aggressive drug addicts and mentally unstable thugs day to day. Yes, I would say the social workers are relatively well paid.
Your logic isn’t sound . So because some workers are paid less, those who are also underpaid in their field is justified ? Social workers deal with trauma all the time, they make life changing differences. 60k is barely liveable wage in the city. There’s currently a shortage of them go figure.
@@bodes888 Well, I’m sure according to the younger generation, almost everyone is underpaid and everyone should have a meaningful job and no stress. There is no “logic” needed here (another buzz word), I used the word “relatively”. In Canada, Salaries $70k and over for a single person is considered high. So, yes, $60K can be considered as RELATIVELY high. You don’t have to be a genius to be a social worker - “trauma” and “life changing” sounds a bit dramatic - again, maybe to the new generation of workers, these type of jobs seem to be insurmountable.
Thanks for removing the chaos. They need education and mental facilities; not a tent or attempts to stab me. These guys are street smart. Y’all being played on camera.
It's hard to straddle the line between compassion and wellbeing. It's a mean thing to do, kicking people from their camp but what about the lively hoods of the people running their buissness? Coming home to seeing constant drug induced madness. Children stepping on needles? Being threatened or actually murdered on your walk to work? Or having your home constantly broken into? You can't run a restraunt when theres a dude shitting on the wall and threatening to stab anyone who walks by. You can't stop people from feeling unsafe in these areas. I've seen horrors on public transit, I don't like to judge a book by its cover but you never know who is actually going to stab you and who just has their hands in their pockets.
I grew up in the Downtown Eastside community, and I have seen firsthand the issues with the NGOs down there. They take tax dollars, but don't have the knowledge to run their approach in a community-focused way. I've also worked for a couple nonprofit organizations in DTES area, and I can attest to this problem. Additionally, I've witnessed a big investment in a community approach during and after the Olympics, and it was a big cash spending mistake. Despite heavy investments in the Downtown Eastside community-based solutions over the last ten years, it has failed. Instead of improving, the situation seems to be getting worse, and it's disheartening to see the lack of progress. Something needs to change, and I hope the powers that be can make it happen.
These poeple dont care why you give them STUFf , food or money…they will take everything that is free and keep using dope as long as they can….This reporter try to make herself fell good by doing this but poeple like here arent helping those addict…they need tought love… How do I know this ? I spend 17 years in the penetenciary, was on methadone 7 years , did 5 therapie…ONLY WHEN I DECIDED TO CHANGE MY LIFE DID I STOP MY STUPID USELESS WAY OF LIVING…
Build the city you would be proud of. If you see something and are not proud of it, change it by all means necessary. Public safety, business security and public health should be #1 priority for city governors. Nothing else pays higher dividends in the long term than focusing on improving these.
I do. It's awful. The weeks following the cleanup the neighborhood was drastically better. As soon as the swarm is back the crime and feces is back and my gf can no longer go to Starbucks without being followed or spat on.
The fire marshal was the one who ordered the decampment, the tent fires along there happened almost on a daily basis, so I'm guessing that Vancouver is unwilling to build housing because of the fire risks...
@@Spirit_Bear2 right!!! Oh and wasn't one of the purchased hotels used for housing evacuated only months later because one of the druggie tenants set his room on fire and it spread to the others..
"What we're doing down here is surviving!" ya so are the business owners too but at least they pay rent. This is ridiculous. nobody DESERVES to live around people who are not trying to be a able bodied part of society.
there is so much country to make campsites even , places made into campgrounds with designated spaces too let homeless have a space to camp on and get transitioned into housing, little cabins could be built , bathrooms and laundry facilities made, cooking area pits and bar-b-q areas , and yes it has to be supervised !!!!!!!!!! My parents in the 1950s-60s were vivid campers, and we visited such wonderful camping sites all thru my childhood , such type places could get setup to care for transient people instead of the pavement of the streets, CMON PEOPLE WE HAVE BRAINS, LETS USE THEM !!!!!!!!
If these governments took some understanding why people are in these positions. Relocating people will help these people get a 2nd chances in life. This decampment was a quick solution to remove people instead of making a future goal of help.
You try to move them out of their 'prime' area and you see what they will say and do. They want to stay down town. Most of working full time can not affort housing there.
There was a fire in an sro and the fools in the tents refused to move for the fire department five days later they moved the tents off Hastings there is a steep decline in common courtesy amongst the people and their behaviour and treatment of fellow human beings because they're not treated as human beings in an inhumane environment that they live in. It's a double edge sword with the problems in the east side.
Why can't the shelters have more security and make sure people feel safe there as well as address the bugs issues? Many homeless say they get robbed while they are sleeping, why not have everyone in a very small space with 4 walls and a door to close...6 feet by 4 feet would be enough. Women are afraid to get raped. Is there not some security of some kind- guards or cameras?
The Question in my view is what is it costing taxpayers to have the public service workers the police , paramedics, social workers, cleaning and maintenance workers all union paid along with federal and provincial grants and funds in the billions for affordable housing and shelters and yet the numbers of people going homeless continues to increase along with a lot of extreme ill health and death.
If you keep it easy to buy , use and sell drugs , arrest and release criminals and allow the tent camps to build to wjere they are everytime its never going to get better. Crack down on the criminals and the dealers HARD . Get the mentaly ill help , get the addicts help and if they dont get clean and end up caught using drugs again jail them.
Why, don't the news reporters, making the reports, give some aid to the people? If the rich, pooled their resources together, they could help a lot of people.
It's heartbreaking that all of this chaos continues and worse yet, many these days are working homeless trying to hold on, but, how is that possible IF NO ADEQUATE housing available to the various groups within this vast growing community. I used to take clothes of good quality clothing donations, walking the streets passing along items. One incident w/one guy in particular I'd seen was wearing hightops duct taped to his pant legs. Leave it to say, it was very jarring upon learning why he so vehemently refused to take the pair of Timberline boots. He stated that sometimes he has to stay in a shelter, that frequently sound sleepers have their shoes stolen from their feet. Yes, crime runs rampant even among the homeless. Very sad and I no longer donate in person, as too many uncomfortable scenarios played out in only last year.
Exactly! We've been doing it the "compassionate" and "community-driven" approach for decades. What's it gotten us? More crime? More tents? More drugs? Tax payers are fleeing Vancouver and this has to change. Time to put the economy first.
This was done for Cruise Ship season, 1st one arrived April 12th at 7am. They are creating an area/ buffer for tourist, and that’s all they care about unfortunately.
I agree the cruise industry in very important for our economy, be we also need a serious commitment to rehab facilities and housing for the people down there. Albertas model seems to be working and our so called safe supply model is definitely not working!
Unfortunately this is a mental health crisis as well.. these people weren’t making sense. They would rather be in a dangerous situation than in housing they have for them. The woman feeling her self worth is so low that she should remain homeless and she’s blaming it in the government. I think it’s sad! We need these people to get into therapy. Glad places are getting cleaned up because I’m sure there is more issues than just the major fires and such. The feces and urine is probably a health risk and then like people said the drugs, death, safety, etc. is an issue. I don’t know what else the government could’ve done because some of these people aren’t willing to leave.. that’s why they’re on the streets.
amazing reporter Brava Lien Yueng! i am happy you brought this to the mayor so gracefully and informed from the displaced peoples side. bless your heart.
I am just so confused. Why was the reporter so easy on the chief of staff responsible for the error and so tough on the mayor??? A LOT of harsh questions for the mayor who did a GOOD thing decamping the illegal activities.
First they came for Maslov's heirarchy of needs from the top-down. Then, it came to this. No one wants these people making a filthy mess on the streets but this ain't it and these people deserve the benefit of the doubt. We can do better, with 'our' surplus, chinese-casinos' and fentanyl-laced-drugs money lining too many North Vancouver pockets.
Not sure on the actual logistics of it all but since canada has no shortage of land, would it be feasible to essentially gift a plot of land to the homeless and have them build the homes themselves? Obviously with modern building requiremnts and methods its a little hard to give a drug addict heavy machinery so sobriety would be part of the deal, but if our ancestors came here and built a whole country out of the wilderness with basic tools it should be possible in the modern age. Now paying for this will obviously be an issue but id rather have my tax dollars go towards them getting treatment and creating a new community than enabling drug use and open encampments in city/residential neighbourhoods. Now being a free country we cant exactly force people to do manual labour but id say hard work and staying sober is a small price to pay for a better future and a place to call home. After completion i suppose they would still need reasonable access to public transit so they can work where there are jobs available. Not a perfect solution as drug addiction is probably the larger issue here but its an idea at least. Any thoughts?
How can we expect people to get sober when they're dealing with homelessness? Housing should be a fundamental human right, not for the privileged. Fix the housing issue, offer sobriety and treat people like they're worth saving and that life is worth living.
Homelessness is not the reason for their intoxication. If so, then whoever's tasked with providing such should have the fundamental human right to impose the terms and conditions it will be provided under.
This is so irresponsible. The childhood trauma suffered from this place is irreversible. These people have no concern about shouting up in front of children or other lewd acts.
Those with simple mind who has so much sympathy for these homeless/druggies, why don't you take them in? Talk and sitting there and complaining is cheap. Just take them in for one week and see if your options change after just one week. I managed addiction clinics for many yrs and I had to called it a quit. Just the fact that they rather live on the street than the shelter, what does that tell you? You have no ideas how much money the government (our tax paying $) spends to help these people but they just don't want to be help. The amount of successful cases are way too low to justify for funding of these programs. I can't justify continuing a job that I don't believe in no more. The city, community, residence and business are being destroyed. I don't live here but I feel terrible for the residence and business owner whose life are being destroyed having to deal with these "garbage". Good for the mayor, he has balls standing up to do what is right for the good of most people and saving his City. Those idiots who just know how to complain, either take these people in or get out of the way so the City can clean up the mess. F CBC, its so one side. They tried too hard to show that they care with sympathy but its all BS, just try to sell what people want to hear instead of reporting the true from both side.
When has it ever been different in this area ? Traditionally its been a black hole since near Vancouvers inception. There is no will to really clean this up just the vicious cycle of history repeating itself.
Set up detox center All the City Politicians from Sam Sullivan, to now Mayor Simms is to blame! As long as The Developers are driving up the rents more people are becoming homeless some are working full-time jobs with families living out of cars, and campers that too have been going on for 20 years.
These are not some innocent people, I tell you. They are nastier people than people you live around with. They are there for many reasons that they don't want you to know!
Those 700 academics, what is your solution? Its easy to chastise the action taken, but what are your solutions people. And not the same virtue signalling stuff.
4:00 the "government" isn't trying to kill you, you're doing that yourself. There is help available, maybe go get some? Get sober, get a job and get some dignity.
easier said than done some of these people are born addicted to drugs some of them have severe underlying mental health conditions the shelters aren't safe nor are they able to meet the needs to refer people to services and get them proper housing as someone who's a member of the downtown Eastside who had to get their place on their own volition and Accord I see what you're saying but there's a much bigger picture here of depravity in our Western Society
If you give them housing they just trash it. I gave a man a place to live for a while and he completely destroyed the room I had to kick him out and I live in a nice neighborhood. These people don't want to work they want everything for free but everybody else has to work for what they have. And if you look back a while Maple ridge had a motel that was given to these homeless people and they burnt it down. Find an island that's out of the city that no one lives with no access to the city to have them build their own commune. But in reality they were just burn the island down. I have no pity for any of these people I'm 71 years old and it is never changed down in the Hastings area and it never will because our government allows it. It's our money we work for it, it's time to clean our city up for good.
I always thought a potential solution would be to dedicate land for where homeless people are encouraged to camp. We dedicate space to public parks and other green spaces so why not have a space for the homeless to camp? In Winnipeg there are a few good spots such as in Point Douglas that could be dedicated for a homeless encampment, and then the City wouldn't have to play this game of cat and mouse
Would want to clean up after them? They will turn into slums sooner or later. Most have nothing to do all day, but asked them to pick up garbage (for payment), that's not going to happen, but with one or two people.
I’m against any suffering that people can endure… listen this is not how we solve the issue open clinics to give legal dosage to addicts and offer livable housing and give them either education or professions to learn and work. This is how you solve the problem. No body wants to live in the streets.
as a ex addict. we must make life less comfortable for the addict to finally say sobriety would be better. making it easier just keeps them loaded. this is a fact
This ⬆. This is so true.
As an ex addict, I know that nothing stops you from finding your next fix, and resorting to violence and anger because your body is writhing in pain when coming down, is a common symptom. Also having a sister that is a part of the studies that show safe injection sites and legalization of drugs work, help me understand greater that these human beings can be helped and saved and not with cruelty, but with sympathy and compassion.
9 years sober and you have a lot to learn.
Reality!!! Thank-you!!!!
@@babalouie3616 The FOURTEEN MILLION BUCKS A DAY aint doing diddly squat..and wont until the issue of GETTING THEM OFF THE DRUGS is dealt with
@@TimSpangler-v9i And people can never get clean unless they WANT to. These ppl are broken
Would've loved to have seen them talk to business owners and residents of the area who are actually working and paying taxes. Maybe their perspective should be heard as well?
Well said.
It is always disappointing to see our national media putting out pieces with such noticeable bias.
@@brsn2991 I’m always sort of taken aback when they say we need to destigmatize drug addiction. Like, why? It’s horrible. And also we define people as addicts like this is the best they can achieve, I feel like this denies them humanity in some way. These people are in hell and instead of investing more heavily in rehabilitation we legalize the drugs that are killing them and create places for them to get high.
We don't bother you buddy....and besides, if a business wants to save that extra money on rent because of the area, then I suggest they deal with BOTH the FLORA and the FAUNA of the neighborhood that contributes to that cheap rent eh!
@@nunyabidness4784 a lot of the proprietors in the area were there before things got out of control. They have paid huge fees to do tenant improvements to the spaces they are leasing and moving their businesses is not really an option as they have invested so heavily in their spaces. I'm genuinely curious why you feel that certain members of society have an inherent right to disrupt other member's ability to make a living.
When you create an environment that makes it easier for addiction and harder for bylaw enforcement, you get debauchery and a whole truck loads of public health issues. The whole reason behind a functioning civil society is to obey and participate in basic laws that govern the populas. Yes these street need help, but not at the expense of ruining communities.
Thay is why nowadays , new born canadian never dream of having kids because they knew in the future what will happen to their children.
when people need to spend millions to buy a house, where else can they go? Also, the drug problem is getting worse, don't know why its still legal
When you break down civil society you increase dependency on government and bureaucrats, a self fulfilling prophecy that benefits governments and bureaucrats not the people.@@Tigeryuzeyin
It fascinates me that Canadians are dealt advice by foreigners nowadays. And we don't speak to the efficacy of cultural dilution at all... Just more pandering @@lingli314
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My wife works in this neighbourhood - and I'll tell ya who is much safer now that there isn't a consistent hoard of questionable activity all condensed in a small area...
Thanks Ken Sim.
Definitely not a solution but it couldn’t stay that way for the safety of everyone
So moving then into the alley changes what? Oh right, you don't have to see the lack of humanity support.
@@bradcanning875 They should go live in the bush. There are companies and people willing to pay top tax dollars for the real estate these people want to camp out in front of.
I challenge any person endorsing the "compassionate" point of view when it comes to homelessness and addicts, to live one year in such places. Where you walk out your front door to the smell of warm urine and human feces. Where you must watch your step as you dodge the used needles littering the sidewalks. Where if you dare leave your car in the street you can be welcome to a broken car window and all of your belongings stolen to fund someone's drug habit. Where you dare not leave your home after the sun sets for fear of being attacked so someone can your 20 dollar bill. Lets go further... Try raising a family in the area with young children exposed to the dangers and filth. Try running a business where if goods are stolen the police won't respond if they werent stolen with the use of a weapon.
When you this, then maybe your compassionate point of view will hold some water. Otherwise step off your high horse and side with the law abiding citizen that have to endure these conditions as part of their daily lives.
Your efforts to link addict and homeless because the media only shows Hastings street is an example of your warped mind and lack of humanity. There are many working homeless living in cars. The billionaire owners who enriched themselves for decades off government rents paid directly to them let the building these people live in deteriorate until condemned. One paid the legal fees of the Air India terrorist trial. That's what you support.
@@bradcanning875 That is utterly false. The connection between homelessness and addictions is ironclad. There are stats that were released by the city of Seattle should you want to check them out that showed over 80% of the homeless polled were addicted to at least one drug. They also correlated the crime in the downtown area with drug addiction. The top 50 criminals in downtown, who accounted for 90% of the crime, had a 100% addiction rate. Please check your facts because it appears you are the one who has swallowed up what the left media has spit out. Homelessness and drug addiction are intimately connected and to assert otherwise is to be blind of the data currently available.
exactly Russell! Tax payers & productive members of society shouldn’t have to deal w/ human waste as they walk on a sidewalk to go & support their fav shop. While that shop owner has to deal w/ these ppl who decide to live, eat, do drugs, drink, poop, piss right in front of their business as they try to attract customers.
@@Trish150655 Agreed. It's not about treating those less fortunate with revulsion, but treating them with some dignity should not have to include everyone else suffering. Not sure exactly the best solution but I am sure it is not siding exclusively with the homeless/addicted population at the expense of everyone else. The overarching approach should be peace and safety in the streets, yet this appears to be of secondary concern.
Ok. I did that and I'm still compassionate. Do I win a prize?
So he doesn't stay in a shelter because he gets robbed there, but then the next thing he says is that he gets robbed on the streets. 🧐 Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that there are things they can get away with on the street that they cannot in a shelter.
I think he means the staff robbing you .
@@educationsolution9766 no, some shelters are large spaces with groups sleeping together and little security. People can steal from each other in those places. But the real issue is you can't come and go, they have curfews and you can't be drunk or get high to stay in these shelters. That is the real reason for not staying in one: shelters don't enable a drug user.
They should have lockers available behind each bed in the shelters so that stealing is not possible
They cant get in shelter if they are drunk or high…thats why they hate going there
@@sticklerforchangeshelters often don’t have beds just mattresses on the floor and huge bedbug problems. The streets are often cleaner and safer.
Those who need help and are not in control of their faculties need to be institutionalized and rehabilitated where possible. Those who are in control of their faculties need to learn to be responsible citizens: we can help them for a while, they need to be sheltered while they get back on their feet, but they must want to or there shouldn’t be endless handouts for them.
Those who peddle substances for abuse need to have the full weight of the law on them with long incarceration periods.
This to me is the most compassionate way to deal with this issue at a societal level, bearing in mind both the needs and the finite resources we have. We as a society will collapse under the weight of this problem if left to continue as is.
The problems is the one in controls are the ones peddling the substances..hear how most addict started their journey toward this path. With oxy/xanax..opium anti depressamt or painkiller..maybe you should follow the money trail and who actually profit from folks being miserable and being able to take control over their life or isolate fhem. Vancouver is now selling those things that completly destroy people legally..giving everytjing you need to do em with freely. Life of dopeheads never been this easy since the trudeau gov..so ye most dopehead or broken people wont stop at this point as theres no incentive for em to stop..theyre fed..they got places to live..most of em got phones and access to free wifi..if theres no incentive for the pleb to live a good life and work hard..then yes mozt of em would just end ul abusing some sort of substances. We got to make it poasible for poor folks to find good paying jobs and afford housing again. So folks have an actual reason to get up in the morning. If the working one is almost in the same situation as the one doing dope and not working..then ye those jobs dont seems really interesting anymore. The complete assault on the middle class that happened worldwide for the last couple of years kinda led to this situation.
when you hear from one side saying that the shelters are all full, and the other side saying that there are sufficient shelters for everyone, obviously they contradict each other. Then as the journalist you need to go investigate further which one tells the truth, right? start from asking Mr mayor for the locations of all those shelters and walking into the shelters to see whether or not they really are all full; asking those who lost their tends on the street which shelter they have tried to go to. I'm sure your professor at the college has taught you how to work as a profession of public communication. How easy it is to put out the cheap empathy.
The mayor was simply lying. Check the press conference the City Manager gave the day of the decampment, where they admitted there were not enough spaces for everyone. Then check the post media reports following where they quote UGM, the actual shelter, that turns away people every day. Use your brain.
We visited some of the shelters. The inner city ones were crowded. There were some a bit further away from downtown and all the mess and people do not want to be there.
Terrible reporting! Why don't you go and interview the businesses and residents of DTES and ask them how they feel about the whole situation?
Do the folks that complain about the decampment work or live there and pay income/property taxes? If not, then they're just commenting on something that's not really their real everyday lives' concern. You should ask people that pay rent or mortgage to live in those neighborhoods and their whole community has turned into trash because of what's going on here!
Nice try.If you had a clue you would know this problem is the result of 2 billionaire families who made hundreds of millions off these people over a couple decades in their slum buildings without ever putting a dime into them even though they received huge tax breaks to do do. Then the government had to give them current property values to buy them and condemn them. Those profits funded the legal fees for the Air India terrorists.
Personal accountability is the new kryptonite.
Yes! Let’s talk to the ppl whose lives & livelihood are affected! These ppl are hard workers, doing their best in this day just trying to get customers into their shops so they can pay for running a business! These ppl make jobs & if no one is coming in because their is someone who popped a tent in front of their business & who has decided to use the area as their own personal bathroom & drug den as well, that’s lost business!!
I have compassion for the ppl who are trying to help themselves & get back on their feet. There are SOBER shelters to go to, there is drug rehab. ect. Help is out there IF they want it.
Preach it brotha, she only reported the street people. How about getting the opinion of the hard working Canadians who pay taxes which in turn support her CBC salary
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Why does everyone treat this as a homeless problem, it's not, it's an addictions problem. Stop looking at the wrong problem! And this report is one sided, talk to the business owners, residents in the area also.
I know right? All the reports only interview the homeless people and not the residents living in the area. My coworker who lives in the area had his car broken into a couple times and he said it's a relief that the government is actually doing something about this.
Yes!!!! Exactly 💯 yet here we are with our gov giving out safe supply...ffs. Just so wrong. 😢
It is also a mental health problem. A majority of the homeless deal with mental illness as well
@@annetteslifeOur politicians are the main mental problems in this country and second the people that vote for them
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Is sad as it is to say these people are so far gone mentally, it would take a miracle for them to get sober and leave Hastings. It’s hard enough for the average functional Joe to get sober let alone someone in the streets doing fentanyl regularly. It’s too bad the gov doesn’t build mental health facilities where they can reside. Focussing on affordable Housing isn’t the solution in my opinion..
Build them? They are standing empty after the Socreds and BC Liberals closed them and set them all to the streets. Educate yourself. They are currently being renovated for use. The BC Liberals let the billionaire owners of 6 of the buildings who housed these people get directly paid $450 a month to let the buildings deteriorate until condemned. The billionaire owners also used that money to pay the legal fees of the Air India terrorists. That's the history of how this occurred. I worked in the Balmoral and watch it all happen.
Well if there was affordable housing less of them would likely end up on the street in the first place there are lots of invisible homeless too couch surfing and such and all the lines of people at food banks are because those people can't afford rent AND food. I agree though about once they are on the street it's more difficult to deal with their other problems maybe they develop their drug problems being on the street too no other way to cope. I think a survey should be done to find out what the causes are too but obviously the shelters are not the solution for everyone either because as the first man said they get robbed and it's only temporary anyway so they can't get comfortable there I am sure they all have trust issues either been victims of crime or some are criminals themselves just all lumped in together because they are poor.
A decade ago there was talk about remodeling the old riverview location into a state of the art grounds for detox and rehab, but only one small building is now back in operation...
@@phoenixman8569 yeah I remember that, and I saw the construction going on for the new building. You would think the current liberal gov would do more service wise.
@@annalisavajda252 bad idea to make shelters comfortable. Parasites would pick it over a work life everytime.
What about the poor people who have to pay rent or try to run a business in that neighborhood? I'm sick of hearing from the druggies ruining the streets and complaining about their handouts!!
EXACTLY!!
they do NOT have the right to infringe on other ppls right to make a living. Stop setting up ur tent where tax payers are trying to run a business & where customers shouldn’t have to step over them to get into a business.
I live there and I just feel bad for the people suffering from mental illness and addiction living on the street. Yes it smells bad. No it’s not unsafe to walk around at night.
The mayor isn't the solution to the problem the mayor is the problem.
CBC always on the side of anything far left.
They don't stay in the shelters down there as the shelters don't let them use inside
They slowly allowed this to get out of hand, then tried to change it overnight. Alberta has a much better approach with short and long term treatment options not safe injection sites.
the reporter said all the shelters were full but then only cited one that was full, i feel like there's a big information gap missing - what other shelters are full exactly and did the reporter go to see the shelters in person? i believe the people that refuse shelters when they say the shelters are worse than the street - but how recently have they visited? a week ago, a month, a year or more? and how about going and speaking to the people using the shelters right now, today, for their perspective? do they regret taking shelter, do they wish they were still on the street? we only hear from the ones who refuse. weapons offences were way up in the area, the tents were being used as armories for who knows what. never mind the fire risks, what about the criminal activity and violence, was the city just supposed to let it fester and continue? i usually like the CBC, but when it comes to the DTES it's never balanced reporting. their newsletter had some really important info a while back: Vancouver has 25% of the Metro area's population, and yet is responsible for almost 75% of the social housing responsibility. 33 of B.C. Housing’s 57 supportive rental housing sites in Metro Vancouver are either in the Downtown Eastside, or a 10min walk away. that just makes the vulnerable people easy prey for the predators that lurk in this community. Getting rid of the tents is not a complete solution, no one is saying that - Canada has to do more, BC has to do more, Metro Vancouver has to do more - but leaving the tents up and allowing things to get worse is not an option.
The way the mayor also qualified it subtly makes me suspect that some of the shelter space he says was available was not local.
All shelters are full. If not because they are absolutely lying or the shelter is permanently closed
Shelter has 1 open bed so yeah it not tull
I work in a no barrier shelter (meaning you can use drugs there) by Pigeon Park, and trust me. All the shelters are full.
That’s good that this decampment is happening. This is for the better safety and function of the community. Sometimes painful strains need to be endured to heal.
There will never be a perfect time to do it. You could wait for Truedue's grandson to become a PM, but nothing will happen. The new mayor is doing his job to improve this area significantly, the rest of the issues should be taken care of by other politicians and experts who just talk.
Who opposed the idea?? Can the people who opposed the idea to find solutions to help the property owners in East Downtown side??
Why not interview the merchants and others who live and work in that area and actually produce a balanced report? Ask more hard questions about why the homeless preferred being robbed on the streets instead of the shelters? Is it because they actually have rules to follow when living in the shelters and they don’t want to follow them? It’s my opinion that if the so many well paid (relatively speaking)social workers did their jobs properly instead of complaining when the city comes up with a solution, there would not be so many people living on the streets. Where does that $1,000,000,000 go every year?
While I agree with you about a balanced report I have to say you are wrong about social workers being 'well paid'...especially the ones on the front lines.
@@husg13just had a look at Indeed job sites. Wages range from $45k to $60k per year plus benefits for the workers. Compare that to the average pay of the hard working ladies selling vegetables in Chinatown who often work 12 hours a day 7 days a week with probably below minimum wage and no benefits while having to put up with aggressive drug addicts and mentally unstable thugs day to day. Yes, I would say the social workers are relatively well paid.
Your logic isn’t sound . So because some workers are paid less, those who are also underpaid in their field is justified ? Social workers deal with trauma all the time, they make life changing differences. 60k is barely liveable wage in the city. There’s currently a shortage of them go figure.
@@bodes888 Well, I’m sure according to the younger generation, almost everyone is underpaid and everyone should have a meaningful job and no stress. There is no “logic” needed here (another buzz word), I used the word “relatively”. In Canada, Salaries $70k and over for a single person is considered high. So, yes, $60K can be considered as RELATIVELY high. You don’t have to be a genius to be a social worker - “trauma” and “life changing” sounds a bit dramatic - again, maybe to the new generation of workers, these type of jobs seem to be insurmountable.
@@bodes888 ah, yes, cancel culture - enough said.
Thanks for removing the chaos. They need education and mental facilities; not a tent or attempts to stab me.
These guys are street smart. Y’all being played on camera.
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It's hard to straddle the line between compassion and wellbeing. It's a mean thing to do, kicking people from their camp but what about the lively hoods of the people running their buissness? Coming home to seeing constant drug induced madness. Children stepping on needles? Being threatened or actually murdered on your walk to work? Or having your home constantly broken into? You can't run a restraunt when theres a dude shitting on the wall and threatening to stab anyone who walks by. You can't stop people from feeling unsafe in these areas.
I've seen horrors on public transit, I don't like to judge a book by its cover but you never know who is actually going to stab you and who just has their hands in their pockets.
seems like she is caring would she allow these adults camp in her back yard?
well allowing them in her back yard wouldn't solve anyone's problem would it? the solution lies somewhere else.
Obviously the solution is everybody else front door .
The mayor is completely out of touch with reality and is living in his own world, my god
This is an excellent mayor. What is up with the hostile interview??? The reporter is totally unbalanced.
obviously bias probably the mayors cousin commenting.yhr mayor is a coward .
"you never know where your stuff is" also in the background, a bike chopshop
If Trudeau would keep giving MILLIONS to every country and look after Canadians first it would make a huge difference.
Mayor Sims is a freaking hero.
never mind, all politicians have had beautiful home. who cares the homeless?
I grew up in the Downtown Eastside community, and I have seen firsthand the issues with the NGOs down there. They take tax dollars, but don't have the knowledge to run their approach in a community-focused way. I've also worked for a couple nonprofit organizations in DTES area, and I can attest to this problem. Additionally, I've witnessed a big investment in a community approach during and after the Olympics, and it was a big cash spending mistake. Despite heavy investments in the Downtown Eastside community-based solutions over the last ten years, it has failed. Instead of improving, the situation seems to be getting worse, and it's disheartening to see the lack of progress. Something needs to change, and I hope the powers that be can make it happen.
You must've run into the Sahota family too then... Thanks for sharing.
Sure its getting worst…addict and homeless go were the free stuff are giving to them…
These poeple dont care why you give them STUFf , food or money…they will take everything that is free and keep using dope as long as they can….This reporter try to make herself fell good by doing this but poeple like here arent helping those addict…they need tought love…
How do I know this ? I spend 17 years in the penetenciary, was on methadone 7 years , did 5 therapie…ONLY WHEN I DECIDED TO CHANGE MY LIFE DID I STOP MY STUPID USELESS WAY OF LIVING…
Well don’t do drugs???
Build the city you would be proud of. If you see something and are not proud of it, change it by all means necessary. Public safety, business security and public health should be #1 priority for city governors. Nothing else pays higher dividends in the long term than focusing on improving these.
This felt so biased... would love to hear from all sides of people that live there
I do. It's awful. The weeks following the cleanup the neighborhood was drastically better. As soon as the swarm is back the crime and feces is back and my gf can no longer go to Starbucks without being followed or spat on.
“Not why the addiction but why the pain?”- Gabor Mate
exactly
Gabor Mate is the man!
Wow! Comments allowed! WTG..CBC!
The fire marshal was the one who ordered the decampment, the tent fires along there happened almost on a daily basis, so I'm guessing that Vancouver is unwilling to build housing because of the fire risks...
Not only the fire chief, the chief of police, the mayor held a press conference explaining the horrendous problems associated to the homeless
@@Spirit_Bear2 right!!! Oh and wasn't one of the purchased hotels used for housing evacuated only months later because one of the druggie tenants set his room on fire and it spread to the others..
The Vancouver mayor seemed really not caring at all. I guess that's your answer.
The interviewer is so pretty with polished hair.
Ken Sim is the BEST mayor Vancouver has had in a generation.
On policing maybe, but not on housing.
@@StandOnGuard4Thee what’s wrong with his housing policy?
You need to do a report on shelters
Will cbc do this?
Great to see the trash being hauled away! Now there needs to be an effort to keep it from ever returning!
Do u think they should’ve gathered them up on the barge at English bay when it got stuck? Then sail it out into the ocean?
@@Mriceman604 Exactly!
@@charlesward9486 karma is a real thing. your day is coming.
@@mendoza4789 So is yours!
Do like Singapore or the Philippines under Duterte.
"What we're doing down here is surviving!" ya so are the business owners too but at least they pay rent. This is ridiculous. nobody DESERVES to live around people who are not trying to be a able bodied part of society.
there is so much country to make campsites even , places made into campgrounds with designated spaces too let homeless have a space to camp on and get transitioned into housing, little cabins could be built , bathrooms and laundry facilities made, cooking area pits and bar-b-q areas , and yes it has to be supervised !!!!!!!!!! My parents in the 1950s-60s were vivid campers, and we visited such wonderful camping sites all thru my childhood , such type places could get setup to care for transient people instead of the pavement of the streets, CMON PEOPLE WE HAVE BRAINS, LETS USE THEM !!!!!!!!
CBC actually allowing people to comment (WOW !! ) !
If these governments took some understanding why people are in these positions. Relocating people will help these people get a 2nd chances in life. This decampment was a quick solution to remove people instead of making a future goal of help.
You try to move them out of their 'prime' area and you see what they will say and do. They want to stay down town. Most of working full time can not affort housing there.
The CBC reporter hasn’t got a clue….go back into your car, …where it’s safe and she has a job, food and a home….she’s clueless 😵💫😵💫
There was a fire in an sro and the fools in the tents refused to move for the fire department five days later they moved the tents off Hastings there is a steep decline in common courtesy amongst the people and their behaviour and treatment of fellow human beings because they're not treated as human beings in an inhumane environment that they live in. It's a double edge sword with the problems in the east side.
Hey Mark baker
Why can't the shelters have more security and make sure people feel safe there as well as address the bugs issues? Many homeless say they get robbed while they are sleeping, why not have everyone in a very small space with 4 walls and a door to close...6 feet by 4 feet would be enough. Women are afraid to get raped. Is there not some security of some kind- guards or cameras?
Their operating budgets don't allow it?
More shelters and rehab centers, organized and supervised appropriatly is an answer !!!
The Question in my view is what is it costing taxpayers to have the public service workers the police , paramedics, social workers, cleaning and maintenance workers all union paid along with federal and provincial grants and funds in the billions for affordable housing and shelters and yet the numbers of people going homeless continues to increase along with a lot of extreme ill health and death.
And our government keeps letting corporations buy up all the houses and apartments.
If you keep it easy to buy , use and sell drugs , arrest and release criminals and allow the tent camps to build to wjere they are everytime its never going to get better. Crack down on the criminals and the dealers HARD . Get the mentaly ill help , get the addicts help and if they dont get clean and end up caught using drugs again jail them.
Thanks Ken you're doing a stand up job so far as mayor.
CBC does a good job going to the people experiencing homelessness. They stumble a bit going to the top.
it's in their own self interest in keeping their funding flowing by protecting 'the top'.
Why, don't the news reporters, making the reports, give some aid to the people? If the rich, pooled their resources together, they could help a lot of people.
Why is it up to the rich to help people? The rich don't owe anyone help.
Nothing has changed, you can move the homeless around where you don't see them but it doesn't change the fact that they're still homeless.
this people didn't work a day in their life , and they want a room , kitchen , and toilet . and im here paying 3k a month . let me try the pipe
so blame them or the profiteers that made your rent 3k. cowards punch down. punch up.
@@mendoza4789agree with you 100%
It's heartbreaking that all of this chaos continues and worse yet, many these days are working homeless trying to hold on, but, how is that possible IF NO ADEQUATE housing available to the various groups within this vast growing community.
I used to take clothes of good quality clothing donations, walking the streets passing along items. One incident w/one guy in particular I'd seen was wearing hightops duct taped to his pant legs. Leave it to say, it was very jarring upon learning why he so vehemently refused to take the pair of Timberline boots. He stated that sometimes he has to stay in a shelter, that frequently sound sleepers have their shoes stolen from their feet.
Yes, crime runs rampant even among the homeless. Very sad and I no longer donate in person, as too many uncomfortable scenarios played out in only last year.
There is housing, but most of the people insists to live downtown. I work and I can not afford a place there.
Its about time. More cities and towns should take this approach.
Exactly! We've been doing it the "compassionate" and "community-driven" approach for decades. What's it gotten us? More crime? More tents? More drugs? Tax payers are fleeing Vancouver and this has to change. Time to put the economy first.
@@BobTheBob647 Money over people? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Ideal over people as in the case of bleeding hearts?
This was done for Cruise Ship season, 1st one arrived April 12th at 7am. They are creating an area/ buffer for tourist, and that’s all they care about unfortunately.
Yup, they cleared it up three days before the first cruise ship arrived in Vancouver for the start of tourist season
It's the tourist that leave money behind not homeless people.
When the USS Enterprise pulled into montego bay they left 2 days later leaving behind 2 million dollars to the local tourist traps.
I agree the cruise industry in very important for our economy, be we also need a serious commitment to rehab facilities and housing for the people down there. Albertas model seems to be working and our so called safe supply model is definitely not working!
Unfortunately this is a mental health crisis as well.. these people weren’t making sense. They would rather be in a dangerous situation than in housing they have for them. The woman feeling her self worth is so low that she should remain homeless and she’s blaming it in the government. I think it’s sad! We need these people to get into therapy.
Glad places are getting cleaned up because I’m sure there is more issues than just the major fires and such. The feces and urine is probably a health risk and then like people said the drugs, death, safety, etc. is an issue. I don’t know what else the government could’ve done because some of these people aren’t willing to leave.. that’s why they’re on the streets.
Fact is the least romanized democracy is measured Democray yeakeixaiii
Finally. Mayor Sim has backbone.
I think she's right about the government
amazing reporter Brava Lien Yueng! i am happy you brought this to the mayor so gracefully and informed from the displaced peoples side. bless your heart.
I agree
I am just so confused. Why was the reporter so easy on the chief of staff responsible for the error and so tough on the mayor??? A LOT of harsh questions for the mayor who did a GOOD thing decamping the illegal activities.
A good thing??? Lmao all he did was shuffle it around and raise up the dust. He did Nothing. The mess is still down there.
@@jamaicaskyagree
First they came for Maslov's heirarchy of needs from the top-down. Then, it came to this. No one wants these people making a filthy mess on the streets but this ain't it and these people deserve the benefit of the doubt. We can do better, with 'our' surplus, chinese-casinos' and fentanyl-laced-drugs money lining too many North Vancouver pockets.
Spitting truthful fire my guy
Poverty Pimps.
And they are decriminalizing drugs. Thats recruiting more people for the streets.
Not sure on the actual logistics of it all but since canada has no shortage of land, would it be feasible to essentially gift a plot of land to the homeless and have them build the homes themselves? Obviously with modern building requiremnts and methods its a little hard to give a drug addict heavy machinery so sobriety would be part of the deal, but if our ancestors came here and built a whole country out of the wilderness with basic tools it should be possible in the modern age. Now paying for this will obviously be an issue but id rather have my tax dollars go towards them getting treatment and creating a new community than enabling drug use and open encampments in city/residential neighbourhoods. Now being a free country we cant exactly force people to do manual labour but id say hard work and staying sober is a small price to pay for a better future and a place to call home. After completion i suppose they would still need reasonable access to public transit so they can work where there are jobs available. Not a perfect solution as drug addiction is probably the larger issue here but its an idea at least. Any thoughts?
"And the Landlord tried to rape me."
And the Asian American reporter just ignored it.
Good job girl. Try to do Journalism.
How can we expect people to get sober when they're dealing with homelessness? Housing should be a fundamental human right, not for the privileged. Fix the housing issue, offer sobriety and treat people like they're worth saving and that life is worth living.
Canada's Housing Minister is focused on profiting from the crisis instead of fixing it.
Homelessness is not the reason for their intoxication.
If so, then whoever's tasked with providing such should have the fundamental human right to impose the terms and conditions it will be provided under.
@@zomgoose
This is largely a provincial and municipal issue.
@@shauncameron8390 BoC and CMHC are major factors. They are federal institutions.
Absolutely, I agree.
Would cutting the drug supply chain solve this problem in its entirety
drugs coming from china. cant question globalism can we.
This is so irresponsible. The childhood trauma suffered from this place is irreversible. These people have no concern about shouting up in front of children or other lewd acts.
Those with simple mind who has so much sympathy for these homeless/druggies, why don't you take them in? Talk and sitting there and complaining is cheap. Just take them in for one week and see if your options change after just one week. I managed addiction clinics for many yrs and I had to called it a quit. Just the fact that they rather live on the street than the shelter, what does that tell you? You have no ideas how much money the government (our tax paying $) spends to help these people but they just don't want to be help. The amount of successful cases are way too low to justify for funding of these programs. I can't justify continuing a job that I don't believe in no more. The city, community, residence and business are being destroyed. I don't live here but I feel terrible for the residence and business owner whose life are being destroyed having to deal with these "garbage". Good for the mayor, he has balls standing up to do what is right for the good of most people and saving his City. Those idiots who just know how to complain, either take these people in or get out of the way so the City can clean up the mess.
F CBC, its so one side. They tried too hard to show that they care with sympathy but its all BS, just try to sell what people want to hear instead of reporting the true from both side.
When has it ever been different in this area ? Traditionally its been a black hole since near Vancouvers inception. There is no will to really clean this up just the vicious cycle of history repeating itself.
Maybe the government needs to stop 'foreign' investment in housing in Vancouver so this doesn't happen in the first place.
Foreign investment is not the reason many of the people are homeless. Besides, 80% of them are not even from Vancouver anyway and just moved in.
Set up detox center All the City Politicians from Sam Sullivan, to now Mayor Simms is to blame! As long as The Developers are driving up the rents more people are becoming homeless some are working full-time jobs with families living out of cars, and campers that too have been going on for 20 years.
then they spent over 40 million on :safe supply drugs" and lowering punishment's for drug dealers.
Thumb up for the clean up now go after all drug dealer earn your paycheck
I've had my fill of Canadian nice.
This is journalism?
Mr Uhhhh Uhhhh. Sounds like he caught someone Hwacking off in his tool shed
Look at Philadelphia Kensington street !!!
Just watched it....pretty sad! Same is happening in Georgia.
The propane tanks argument from the mayor is good....
These are not some innocent people, I tell you. They are nastier people than people you live around with. They are there for many reasons that they don't want you to know!
3:03
Those 700 academics, what is your solution?
Its easy to chastise the action taken, but what are your solutions people. And not the same virtue signalling stuff.
The "safe supply" is NOT so safe.
4:00 the "government" isn't trying to kill you, you're doing that yourself. There is help available, maybe go get some? Get sober, get a job and get some dignity.
I know a homeless guy in Edmonton who has stopped breakins & vandalism in surrounding businesses & cops are still cleaning him out.
There is zero affordable houseing in Vancouver period
Vancouver's high land values and bureaucracy will not allow it.
14 when i was out on my own.....if i can manage to not be homless the entire time ao can these ADULTS
easier said than done some of these people are born addicted to drugs some of them have severe underlying mental health conditions the shelters aren't safe nor are they able to meet the needs to refer people to services and get them proper housing as someone who's a member of the downtown Eastside who had to get their place on their own volition and Accord I see what you're saying but there's a much bigger picture here of depravity in our Western Society
If you give them housing they just trash it. I gave a man a place to live for a while and he completely destroyed the room I had to kick him out and I live in a nice neighborhood. These people don't want to work they want everything for free but everybody else has to work for what they have. And if you look back a while Maple ridge had a motel that was given to these homeless people and they burnt it down. Find an island that's out of the city that no one lives with no access to the city to have them build their own commune. But in reality they were just burn the island down. I have no pity for any of these people I'm 71 years old and it is never changed down in the Hastings area and it never will because our government allows it. It's our money we work for it, it's time to clean our city up for good.
thats what it is like she said it is a cover up
I always thought a potential solution would be to dedicate land for where homeless people are encouraged to camp. We dedicate space to public parks and other green spaces so why not have a space for the homeless to camp? In Winnipeg there are a few good spots such as in Point Douglas that could be dedicated for a homeless encampment, and then the City wouldn't have to play this game of cat and mouse
That would be a good idea
Would want to clean up after them? They will turn into slums sooner or later. Most have nothing to do all day, but asked them to pick up garbage (for payment), that's not going to happen, but with one or two people.
Edmonton tried this it was a horrible nightmare. For the communities and the homeless.
@@lesmoody4427 Thats fair, I understand it could create certain issues, fire hazards ect.
I'am surprised Vancouver Canada has drug addicts. I didn't think there was any.
I’m against any suffering that people can endure… listen this is not how we solve the issue open clinics to give legal dosage to addicts and offer livable housing and give them either education or professions to learn and work. This is how you solve the problem. No body wants to live in the streets.
No. Those people do not need more enabling. Time for some tough love.
The drugs is not a conspiracy. Absolutely truth.