The problem for Vancouver specifically is it doesn't matter how much housing we build as most of our homeless are not from Vancouver, Vancouvers climate already acts as a magnet for the housing insecure from all over Canada, if you are giving away free housing as well then you just keep attracting vastly more people with social issues.
As a Vancouver home owner I have no problem paying my taxes to help out people from Vancouver who are struggling but I am effed if I should be paying for Kamloops, Medicine Hat, Swift Current, Brandon and Thunder Bays social issues
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