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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
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
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Just want to shout out to the poster who is actually in the crap and doing the heavy lifting. I could never do what you do. This crappy little post is my acknowledgement. This guy is a kingpin.