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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Haha ooooooo I’d be a little careful as a Calgarian looking down my nose at Vancouver for the homeless problem. No question Vancouver is bad, tent city, etc. however Calgary is trending in the wrong direction as well.
I just visited Calgary and was downtown last week and the increase of homeless people today vs. 1 year ago vs. 6 months ago to hell even just 2 months ago is a very clear and alarming trend. Very anecdotal / subjective but wow, Calgary now has a homeless issue. They are everywhere.
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It will be interesting to see the outcome of the homeless count they are doing right now. I live in the Beltline and I haven’t really noticed a sharp increase recently in the number of rough sleepers around, but it’s also more difficult to notice a change when you are in a place everyday. I do think there’s been an increase in antisocial behaviour and disorder though, especially on the C-Train system.
We also had a similar incident in Inglewood recently where some lowlife randomly killed a guy in his own building hallway.