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Originally Posted by Muta
Regarding the homeless issue in Edmonton their city just built five modular affordable housing buildings across the city; 219 units total with indigenous ceremony spaces in each building. This only cost $56M total for all five buildings due to the value engineered solution of modular construction. Each place also has social and occupational support services. I think this is a stellar solution and something the City of Calgary should look into too.
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If you move an addict into a home does the addict stop being an addict?
How many of the homeless people walking around are waiving their ability to level 1 on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and NOT addicts? I'd wager... maybe 5-10% max. If that even?
So, building houses is a stop-gap, short-term, non-permanent, bandaid fix that will not stop the real problem which is, of course,
addiction.