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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The reason people are homeless is because they have no homes.
If Vancouver wasn't a cesspool of corruption, the homeless problem wouldn't be near the issue it is.
We have low taxes though so weeeeeee.
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I'm not sure it fits the concept of corruption, but there is definitely a lot of inaction coming from the government.
There's been several high profile cases of drug traffickers laundering money through BC casinos, and then using that money to buy real estate. So basically, we have Fentanyl pushers poisoning people, and then using the profits to drive up housing prices and push more people onto the streets.
Meanwhile, the government skims taxes off the top at every step.
I also do suspect their is actual corruption in the building permit process. It seems a though a select number of people are getting the lion's share of the permits. The permits also seem to leak out in a way that never satisfies demand, so that new units are always sold at a premium.
Gregor Robertson's degree of inaction was startling. He was elected on a platform of ending homelessness, but then refused to even acknowledge the affect of foreign investment on home affordability.