Advocates rally against closure of Vancouver modular housing

A modular housing building in Vancouver is set to close at the end of July. As Kier Junos reports, advocates say the move will make homelessness worse in the city.

[@leond1270]

Trudeaus utopia..

[@yinliu5634]

What i dont understand is why cant the people that cant afford to live here move to a cheaper province?
I came to this country with my parents with nothing amd didnt even speak english, and we are doing just fine. Always wonder how this abled body people, who grew up here, has roots here, allow themselves to become homeless.

[@RalphieMaysGhost]

Why dont these "advocates" let homeless people stay at their house?

[@psychoblack1411]

if you dont understand the situation please dont comment like you do ...if you did know about the situation then you would not have had to ask the question you did.

[@RalphieMaysGhost]

@@psychoblack1411 The real problem is theres lots of people that would rather spend their rent on drugs. Cut the condescending attitude.

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

How are advocates Mak money? Is it like welfare?

[@jamesbrennenman8671]

The have jobs loser

[@lorainestjames4181]

Greed and corruption has brought us to the point of feeling numb while we witness this attack on the poorer citizens which in my opinion, " is crimes against humanity right in our faces."

[@mahihkanwolf]

People judge like they know how to help poverty when they dont have experience of poverty themselves

[@AndrewDhaliwal-iu1ws]

To prolong the existence of bad genes is a crime against humanity.

[@Anonymous_Whisper]

You talking about government?

[@SkepticalChris]

This place has become a slum where every day, ambulances are called multiple times a day to attend to overdoses, and the entire area has seen a sharp rise in crime and break ins. Its basically become practically a slum.
But there is a lot of affordable housing, in Alberta, we should give them one way bus tickets to Calgary or Edmonton! Why should they be given prime real estate in the most expensive neighborhoods in Canada, in Downtown Vancouver, when there is a vast abundance of cheaper land and real estate in Alberta?

[@brads8143]

If your answer is to ship our problems away, you are what's wrong with the world today.

[@acepath3001]

Its all about real estate.

[@SEETORONTO416]

Thank you for sharing. ✌

[@cynthiabelhumeur619]

Where are they moving

[@mikethevike438]

Maid beds

[@Make_America_Native_Again]

Decriminalize homelessness.

[@mahihkanwolf]

they like to judge people who are in homelessness and poverty, and all they care about is money in the end. coming from a person who used to live at larwill place those two mods... were by the sky train station

[@mahihkanwolf]

@@christopherh.p.4680 tugguy if anything they should not judge them because jobs wont hire them... How are they gonna buy a house if jobs wont hire them if they are homeless.. Etc they nedd to get jobs but no hiring is done in poverty because their biased

[@mahihkanwolf]

​@@christopherh.p.4680the Modular housing and Sro is a stepping stone to getting education an jobs.. And to get back on their feet but like they are gonna hire them cause they come from poverty. The government is Biased themselves its all corrupt and greed in the end

[@mahihkanwolf]

@@christopherh.p.4680 yea i know i gotta agree with u on that

[@Make_America_Native_Again]

@@christopherh.p.4680 Sounds like slavery with extra steps. If you dont / cant work you are criminalized.