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Originally Posted by activeStick
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the irony is the DTES is shrinking massively, it is about a 3rd the size it used to be, that is causing some of the issues, there used to be rooming houses scattered through Chinatown, Strathcona even Gastown, all of that has been gentrified.
I remember helping one of my ex foster kids friends move from a 'tech development start up hub' in Chinatown a couple of years ago, full of asian kids attending SFU downtown or doing digital arts courses at Emily Carr, I freaked the kid out by letting him know I'd worked with a 17 year old crack head who'd lived in his very 'suite' (suite meaning a bedroom with a toilet) a decade earlier who had been thrown off the 3rd floor balcony by his supplier for not paying his bills