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Originally Posted by DESS
It's ill-informed opinions like this that are part of the problem IMO. There is plenty of cheap housing in Calgary. In a two second Google search I found rooms for rent for $375 - in Brentwood no less! I imagine Dover, Forest Lawn, etc. would have even cheaper places. Absolutely anybody (with the exception of severe mental cases) could make that in a week in Calgary. Housing is expensive? Untrue. Add to that some of the highest wages in the country and people who are not lazy should have no problem covering their basic shelter needs.
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Wow.
I take it you live in a nice house and have a swanky job downtown in a oil or oil-related industry then? I'm not talking about people in oil specifically, I'm talking about all affluent people in Calgary, and they're a dime a dozen.
$375 to you is obviously peanuts. What about someone who doesn't have anything and can't make more than minimum wage? What if they have children to support? What if they need medication (and by all accounts, the homeless are plauged with this problem)?
It is so...SO easy to say what you just said. Why don't you live on the street and suddenly change your life around in the blink of an eye?
My god, it's people with your opinion that are exactly the problem as to why there is so much angst against them.
Let me guess - you would have more compassion for the homeless if it was a starving mother in sub-saharan Africa, right? Poverty is poverty, and it must be addressed. Public, private, mixed solutions - doesn't matter. These people need a helping hand, not a kick while they're down.