Tent city in Vancouver dismantled, displacing hundreds of people | APTN News

The City of Vancouver along with the police have started to dismantle a tent city that sprung up on the Downtown Eastside.
But many are wondering where the hundreds of people who call the camp home will live.
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[@FB-rn1qm]

They cannot live on the street doing drugs and crimes, it is not acceptable. but the city cannot leave these people with no resources and no access to housing and expect them to just disappear. I understand both sides of this. Very difficult solution.

[@BeanBeanBeanBeanBeanBean]

You need an address and a bed in order to work baud 🤡

[@Proud2BBlue]

All of them are not doing drugs and committing crimes.

[@ClarityDetermination]

Yes, everyone can understand both sides of this situation if they actually try.

[@Proud2BBlue]

@@aidenprintup4547 dude I'm so sorry to hear that! I hope you find help somewhere.

[@neohubris]

there are resources, the drugged out losers don't want to go to a shelter because they can't do drugs inside. Time for most of these druggies to go back to their hometowns and leave Vancouver

[@smithsark77]

Only a matter of time before this city turns into Portland

[@Teddy31976]

This is Canada. USA doesn't have the balls!

[@canadianbc7789]

Hope not.

[@rolonnemarieross7243]

@@canadianbc7789 TOO LATE!!!

[@frankmoon9350]

Vancouver has done nothing but support addiction for decades. Time to move forward.

[@alimanasiya3536]

sad thing is people will keep feeling sorry for these people. There is not a single place where legalizing drugs doesn't cause this same issue. Look at portland, look at kensington in Philadelphia. The problem is you expect people to make very smart decisions with legal drugs but its addictive nature is too strong for some people to handle and then they form addiction and turn their entire life upside. Drugs should never be legal.

[@thezackseven]

How about using Douglas Island as a campground, forming a co-op where they can obtain benefits (food, clothing) via community work, growing their own food via gardening and selling any extras. A paramedic told me there are three kinds of homeless, 1-) The wills, the ones that can make it out but just need a little help, 2-) The can't, these are the mentally challenged, disabled, too poorly educated, etc, 3-) The won't, these can make it out but have no will to do so.

[@qiranwang]

So the priority is to first help the ones in the 1st category right?

[@trumanhung]

Yes, send all of them to Douglas Island!

[@canadianbc7789]

Can you imagine how the city would look after. Nobody would miss that crappy city.

[@BeanBeanBeanBeanBeanBean]

There is housing, but the city is not willing to provide it. We have the resources, but the government, corporations, and plain shitty people would rather these people die or caged in prison than do anything that would actually solve the problem. Why? Simple - suffering and threat of homelessness is a necessary feature of capitalism. Not to mention - many of these people are mentally ill, and there are no systems in place to provide adequate care. There is no morally defensible reason to kick domestic refugees out of their shanty towns when they have literally nowhere else to go. And to the people who agree with this action - where do you want them to go? If your answer is “I don’t care”, then you’ve lost your humanity.

[@oliviachipperfield6029]

Well put!! ❤

[@dentes1185]

There’s plenty of camping spots at 24 Sussex drive…..

[@Gtr888-ub6xf]

where to go ?should have think of that long ago ,have u ever think of the people having businesses there and those who lived and worked there ?

[@johnandrews3434]

Hurray, it’s about time they cleaned this mess up. Good job VPD and thanks to Vancouver Mayor

[@thelaudown8576]

You better hope you never end up in a bad situation and don't have anyone to pick you up. I surely don't think god or anyone will have mercy on your cold soul. The homeless are hard to deal with sometimes but they are humans too and don't deserve to just have all their belongings trashed.

[@anamas149]

They will go back to the same they are sick and can not be on the streets they have to be put in mental facilities until they get well no before

[@montasirhossain2293]

Much needed!

[@debbiehellionandtheapocaly84]

Like I said to the advocates why don't you take some of them home with you? We have them for a year and we suffer greatly. Why don't you take them for your backyard or maybe the front of your building? None of them will to even suggest that this should be continuing for canadians is absolutely hideous and evil plain evil

[@greg6500]

Or the city government who has plenty of funding to spend billions of dollars on some sporting event could instead solve this problem? Considering stuff like this is its actual god damned job.

[@BeanBeanBeanBeanBeanBean]

It might come as a surprise to you that those with the disproportionate amount of power have a disproportionate responsibility as well. The government is the one with the vast power to provide these resources. Also, your presumption that the people advocating for the homeless have the means to even do what you’re suggesting reflects your knowledge on the situation, which is zero.

[@meraaleta3750]

This is so gross. We're debating whether or not the CEO of Loblaws should have a million dollar pay raise while this occurs. Anyone else see the craziness of that?

[@lizliz4186]

Even worse he got a 4 million dollar raise, while the average cashier in his stores make less than 40k/yr. (1% of his raise). The average!!.....so half those cashiers don't make a living wage.

[@christopherdunn317]

I worked there for a few weeks ! never work for them ! your a robot linked to a computer

[@greg6500]

Capitalism is not great.

[@seekfirstthekingdom4388]

The CEO of loblaws didn’t give up on life for welfare and free drugs and crime. So what’s the point you are making?

[@justinlarsen2281]

The CEO of Loblaws isn’t shitting in the street and leaving needles in parks

[@justinlarsen2281]

Let’s be honest here, their possessions are stolen goods to begin with. Also instead of asking the average person “Have you ever been homeless?” It’s not the average person creating this problem. Turn that question around and start asking the homeless if they’ve ever chosen needs over wants, responsibilities over addictions. They’re the one that need to change

[@user-fu9gm2uz2k]

Mhmm. It starts with the individual

[@edwardmellow5824]

I don't think they were snipers. Just watching. Glad they are cleaning up the streets. There should never be tents and junk on the streets.

[@debbiehellionandtheapocaly84]

If you guys really wanted to help them you'd be like me. Advocating for a mental hospital nine months and they'll be off the hard drugs and maybe they can have a real life. Since the advocates are advocating for tents instead of 6 overdose deaths is the date now 7. Congratulations give you guys a pat on your back

[@greg6500]

Pretty hard to beat an addiction or do any kind of self improvement while living on a sidewalk.

[@lizliz4186]

They do offer rehab but you can't force them into it.

[@greg6500]

@@lizliz4186 Trial runs have shown that if you house them they are far more likely to accept addiction help.

[@Jab-vl3bw]

@@lizliz4186 There isn't ever enough beds & it isn't long enough, plus they get done rehab & still no affordable place to live or job! Are you really that dense?

[@JMARTIN1947]

Pretty hard to change your life if you don't want to work and give up drugs.

[@vacuumunit]

Finally Vancouver is waking up

[@greg6500]

How?

[@vacuumunit]

@@greg6500 clearing the streets duh

[@IgivemylifetoChrist]

Mayor: we need to make Hastings welcoming to everyone 0:48

[@thatguymark2492]

Drug addicts are not welcome

[@devinfraser9795]

Some don’t want the help . Then it’s mental health issues. Vagrancy laws use them to get them off the streets. Hold them for 48 hours get the help they need . Addicts may only need the 48 hours of sobriety to make a decision. No charges just help .

[@dawss]

@@greg6500 why would these degenerates deserve anything they treat immigrants better because they arent drug addicts living in fn tents on hastings

[@IgivemylifetoChrist]

@@devinfraser9795 can’t you die without special help detoxing? I see where you are going but I don’t think we should treat them like criminals, their lives are hard enough as it is. But maybe if they could be held in a proper detox facility? Hard to say. I don’t think they choose this lifestyle, if they don’t want help then they are just not ready for it; trauma of some sort generally is what gets them here (look up Dr Gabor Mates work)…. Most of them are kind gentle people that do just need help but not sure if two days in jail will be the answer, God bless them all and thank God my life is more blessed than theirs and I hope I never have to live like that with crazy housing costs sometimes I’m afraid I could one day end up homeless, it’s a slippery slope

[@alanlopez5971]

To the Homeless camp out at Broadway City Hall, The City Council and the Developers need to take problem responsibility for causing this ongoing problem for, 20 years.

[@cynthiaduong9151]

I want free housing too. Unfortunately, I have to work to make ends meet. It’s sad to see people more capable then me not wanting to work. But on the other hand, if it’s free why work.

[@brandymcevoy2481]

I missed the part where these people have free housing. Seems to me they're living outside in filth. But you right, poor you.

[@greg6500]

Yeah.... Everythings just handed to them for free, its why they are all living in such splendour.

[@Proud2BBlue]

Most of those people have serious mental problems. They aren't homeless because it's free! Seems like you need to do some soul searching. I'll refrain from telling you exactly what I think of people like you so the comment won't be removed.

[@derekpam7149]

Exactly!

[@colleenpeck6347]

He was 54 & stopped working to live on the streets. Meanwhile immigrants are coming in to work!

[@stephanblack4558]

Big wages for MP's

[@slappyfun]

How can other countries be so much better than us at this? We just can't figure out how to be a proper society that cares for one another.

[@davidpristupa1629]

Life is much better and relaxed in Bogota. A nice studio comes at $300

[@greg6500]

Wish I knew, I always thought we were better than this.

[@edpeesker5087]

You can thank anyone who voted ndp/ liberal

[@slappyfun]

@@edpeesker5087 I believe it. But also forgetting the other major party. Like in the US, I don't believe ANY of them will do us good. I'm hoping poliviere proves me wrong.

[@greg6500]

@@slappyfun He would simply have them shot

[@jimbo1637]

It genuinely blows my mind that people think this kind of thing works. Dozens of cities have done this before, and the tents always come back in a few days or a few blocks away. Unless the city actually has a place for the homeless to go, they'll stay on the streets.

[@greg6500]

No no no... When you tell them to "Move along" problem solved, That must be the case because that's all this city ever does.

[@neohubris]

there are spaces in shelters, you saw the video, the drug addicts won't use them because it's no up to their standards lol also the drug addicts are prohibited from using drugs inside shelters, that's why they live in the street and do drugs all day if the police keep it up, these losers will eventually go to another city or town

[@barlux88]

Agreed. I’m for removing tent cities - if they have a fkng plan

[@derekd4221]

Build a prison and charge them with enough crimes to be in the prison for 2 years (tresspassing, possession of drugs, destruction of property from shitting everywhere, etc.). This gives the criminals a chance to clean up and have a place to sleep and eat. Let's face it, where they are now is unacceptable. The city is soft with this approach, they have to take a tougher stance. Tough love.

[@jimbo1637]

@@derekd4221 it costs more than $90k per year to keep someone in prison. So why not just give them housing and mandatory mental health treatment when that would objectively be cheaper?

[@Human4Peace]

Rental properties here in NB are skyrocketing. My kid got not to leave so they could renovate. They had to move back home. No way young people just starting out can afford rent on top of everything else. We will see more and more people homeless that through no fault of their own got squeezed out of renting. I especially feel for single mom with kids. Domestic violence on the rise. So much pressure on families today it's unbelievable.

[@VanNguyen-hy2ip]

I am sorry but if you can not afford to live in Vancouver then why not moving to smaller cities where you can get a job and afford to live. Why have to stay in big & expensive city like in Vancouver?

[@itsameanna391]

That is something that I cannot understand either. On another hand in the big cities you are more anonymous and access to the " stuff" is easier. So conclusion. Those people are homeless by choice. ....or by their addiction.

[@sativar6530]

Can’t save money at all, had to move back home with family and we are all struggling truthfully all of us have full time jobs and don’t buy food it’s been really hard

[@jamesfehr2071]

​@@VanNguyen-hy2ipmove to a different city pay less and get paid less... Sounds magical.

[@jamesfehr2071]

​@@itsameanna391then your pretty ignorant.

[@debbiehellionandtheapocaly84]

If somebody advocated for me to live in a tent I'd be in federal penitentiary

[@sjoerdhartman9181]

Sorry, not my native language, is it a little wordplay joke? Cause then it's actually really funny and I would dare to laugh.. but maybe I'm missing something here and I really don't want to stamp on people with subjects and matters like this.. 😅 Too serious,.. and as I just read something giving me the impression you're actually really helping on ground there, so I both don't want to step on your toes on one hand, but on the other hand, to me as being such an individual, your actual help would qualify you allowed to do joke around with the subject. To me. I'm homeless too by the way.. But category okay, steady income, got a little harboured boat and surf a lot of couches happily serving food and doing dishes where I go whenever and overstay my welcome? Never! 😉 Anyway, if it is a tent joke, it is a really funny one and after the laugh it still made me smile big time! You've made me a happy camper this evening!

[@rayc3103]

Love your channel, Debbie

[@davekrochenski]

Symapthy is but a devil where compassion is hell. Tell me, how am I supposed to feel about this?

[@MegaCassie83]

Don't just get tf off Native land colonizer

[@debbiehellionandtheapocaly84]

You know I can't get the little native dude out of my head that overdosed under my window. That was so loved someone put so much clothes on him in the snow that when he overdose the ambulance couldn't even save him😭😭😭😭 Couldn't find a place to put the narcom in. I watched his little buddy run away after the ambulance came.😮

[@MegaCassie83]

Build jousting make safety kits available for those who don't want to quit. It's human right

[@vintran9777]

People who earns $20's an hour are struggling to survive in the city. This homeless dude want a one bedroom which cost approximately $2000+ per month in Vancouver and Toronto. Who's going to pay for his rent, hydro, food, medications, & etc???

[@chillonfunsmart4929]

As long as Canada has Justin Trudeau as PM there is no reason to think the government is on anyone's side except the members of the World Economic Forum.

[@colleenpeck6347]

Ar least Canadians aren't dying on a daily basis from gun violence!

[@chillonfunsmart4929]

@@colleenpeck6347 Nope, they are resorting to knife attacks instead.

[@annfoster6116]

No housing outside the city? About time the mess was cleaned up

[@blurtam188]

Why not make these people build homes outside of the city?

[@asmith8947]

Fire chief ordered the tents removed weeks ago.

[@MrThatnativeguy]

Months ago

[@metalkokorea]

warm there, so people gather there.

[@rikijulius4014]

Crazy they just thrown their own people Canadians

[@MilesCobbett]

In Japan they have Capsule Hotels. Rooms to sleep in from 8 to 28 dollars per night and with clean bathrooms and showers

[@cantrait7311]

And Japan takes no immigrants Japan wants to keep its nation pure racial japanese

[@davidstainton7201]

Yeh, I’d wish someone gave me an apartment….

[@itsameanna391]

Yes rent or payment free. Level.of entiltment for those people are realy high. I have issue so give me. Problem is already with cooperations offered housing to those people. As they mentality not change the day they become housed. Still entiltment is high and respect to others low so crime is high. In London they tried to breake the crowd. So where is many addicts placed together chances for success are very low. And pressure to adjust also is almost none. When they are place totaly separately into some environment then chances for rehabilitation rose. In London many gang members, addicts offenders got offer. You get help, house and support but in place x, outside London. Take it or we not have nothing to offer to you. And it works. The areas like Hackney from the worst become nice trendy and family friendly place.

[@griffin2263]

mental health hospitals were people are placed in care for 30 to 60 days .. so they can became sober and off the drugs and find coping skills ..this is an addiction issue not a poverty issue ..some of these people can not function in the real world

[@Jab-vl3bw]

Don't you know that the federal gov't decades ago closed the mental institutions putting these people on the streets, that's when this all started! Now we have mentally ill people trying to cope with living on the streets by doing street drugs. Every female interviewed had been attacked at least once & some people think this is a choice! Yes it is also a proverty issue....do you think 1000.00 monthly for a studio apt in Vancouver is affordable or are you just dense? You could probably try a little compassion or empathy! Maybe you really believe that all people are created equal & start life on a level palying field! Give your head a shake & do some reseach if you think 30 to 60 days will put this right!

[@amybella]

0:13 "Police snipers can be seen on rooftops" looks like two watch cops with binoculars to me with hand guns. MSM at its best lol. 🤣🤣

[@kennyjames2126]

I am not God-Yeshua, However something could be done right? To help them, Maybe if the rich get off their ass???

[@IgivemylifetoChrist]

So if they admit they know there’s no shelter for them to go to, where do you expect them to go to? Are we in kindergarten or are we just mean?

[@Bunny11344]

Go help them yourself Karen

[@randomdood1089]

Ngl it is a problem but at least you can reshuffle the violent crime culture that's growing there

[@systemofadown945]

Yea well nothin in life is free you gotta work to make a living, i watched my mom bust her ass her whole life and then they raise the retirement age to 65 so she had to work an extra 5 years, meanwhile these pos get a free handout every day and still complain for more free handouts, life dont work like that, got it?

[@Jon-op1pr]

its partly a safety issue. the streets and the tents arent safe. huge fire hazard.

[@seekfirstthekingdom4388]

That’s their problem. They chose welfare and drugs, while the working class is burdened by these criminals.

[@greg6500]

Force them into poverty then punish them for it. Our society deserves to fail.

[@JMARTIN1947]

If their "poverty" is due to mental illness, drug abuse, and criminal thinking, who is to blame?

[@greg6500]

@@JMARTIN1947 Well often its from being repeatedly raped or savagely beaten at a young age and fleeing to a weird city with no money, shelter or job skills, A huge number of them are LGBTQ who got kicked out and disowned by homophobic parents, Many are born poor and lack the advantages you and I may take for granted many are the product of our broken foster system. Trauma and a bad start can really mess a person up.

[@snoxbox]

Housing is not necessarily the problem for tent city people, it's a lifestyle issue, not a poverty issue. Drug use/abuse is the problem.

[@oliviachipperfield6029]

It's mental illness that is the true cause. Drugs offer escape. Probably many of the homeless never had a secure existence, and never stood a chance because of it.

[@dawss]

they dont want housing with housing comes rules

[@snoxbox]

@@dawss and these rules prevent them from having wild parties and drug use cos it puts other tenants at risk.

[@dawss]

@snoxbox my point exactly they should have mandatory rehab the ones that don't make it back to reality should go into a nut house

[@jazziez6467]

The churchs and volunteers give out tents with the church member donations, then they waste it giving out clothes and tents to be tossed in the garbage in a couple weeks. It is alot of garbage going into the dumps. Then the vicious cycle of donations and tossing out starts again and again. Leave the tents alone or let them take them down and move them. It is inhumane to put them into the freezing rain.

[@neohubris]

The volunteers are enabling these drugged out losers to break the law. They should be arrested.

[@phoenixman8569]

No kidding, thses do gooders churches, treat them like they are innocent starving childrdn in third world countries, like the old church saying goes bring me your poor, starving, etc etc but in reality most are far from innocent, some people like myself who live very close to a homeless shelter, see just how criminal minded and dangerous they can be, when they need quick cash for thier next 12 hr fentanyl fix...

[@jazziez6467]

@@phoenixman8569 My hubby was a druggy so you don't have to tell me how dangerous he was. He dropped dead from od and that was the day I started living again.

[@ryanlogan7330]

Everyone talking about how poor the homeless people are, yet nobody cares about the shop owners and workers there who had to suffer this sh*t environment with their hard work.

[@itsameanna391]

I was in yelowtown one evening. I think issue is with high acceptance of drug use. People taking shoots on the middle of pavements!! I call police but I am doubt that anybody come. Even they may pose danger to others. And yes agree what about regular people who live in the area business owners. All getting delapidating because croud of homeless but I would say addicts who's prefer to stay close to the source of they addiction. New rules of personal amount also not do any good. There is nothing which will force those people to another path. Nothing Give them house/ 1 bedroom. How quickly that place with turn to another junkie spot??? I bet very quickly.

[@phoenixman8569]

The news keeps calling them homeless and vulnerable, but from disturbing things I've seen at night around a homeless shelter close to my home, the words dangerous and unpredictable suits them better..

[@derekd4221]

Build a prison and charge them with enough crimes to be in the prison for 2 years (tresspassing, possession of drugs, destruction of property from shitting everywhere, etc.). This gives the criminals a chance to clean up and have a place to sleep and eat. Let's face it, where they are now is unacceptable. The city is soft with this approach, they have to take a tougher stance. Tough love.

[@xxllbb55]

I love "WE" love SOCIALISM !!!!!!!!!! KEEP GOING !!!!!!

[@CalmRVRS]

Snipers enforcing displacement is disgusting.

[@MrThatnativeguy]

Rampant open drug use is disgusting

[@randomdood1089]

Sure, when don't you go in there and face the stabbing, gun, crossbow shot with your iron will😂

[@theemporium5899]

Our small town did this. Tried to reunite people with family, provide housing and or rehabilitation but there will ALWAYS be a percentage that don't want help and want to be on the streets. Ive offered a homeless couple accommodation to help them but they didn't want to leave the street life. We helped an elderly homeless couple living on the beach who was waiting for a retirement fund to pay out. When the money came they disappeared and the husband went back to alcohol and died of liver failure a few months later. At what point do you celebrate the few that do a complete turn around against the many that just want to do what they like on everyone else's expense.

[@MegaCassie83]

You telling everyone this makes you a horrible person because it giving Generation Look At Me

[@manjican]

​@@MegaCassie83 You are an idi oit and btw her comment makes complete sense. I have been around a lot of homeless people and most of them are stubbornly stuck in their ways.

[@francescoallevato6507]

I never thought Canada has become a third world country

[@IgivemylifetoChrist]

On Easter weekend no less

[@cantrait7311]

Canada rejected Christ decades ago it’s a secular country

[@johncorcoran4250]

The cost of this operation, no alternative available for these people.

[@lorrainec8190]

He says "they're not doing anything for us", what happened to doing for yourself? The world owes no one nothing.

[@canadianbc7789]

Finally, the Mayor is doing his job. Go clean the crappy streets, it's ugly to see what our city becomes.

[@doomghoster]

love to see it - clean up was much needed

[@Teddy31976]

Good for you Canada!!! The police better have bug spray!

[@f.mazz.459]

The problem is not homelessness. The problem began with the end-the-stigma campaign lead by the previous mayor and city counsel against drug users and normalizing this abnormal lifestyle of theirs. They WANT to be "homeless" living in these tents close to the drug supply...period point blank. I am a former addict myself who started using percocet and oxycodone, then eventually graduated to fentanyl. If this end-the-stigma crap and free drug supply was around before I sought treatment, I'd still be an addict today! Thank God I'm not and it's bcuz society didn't normalize and enable my behavior. Clean up the streets, dismantle these encampments and get these ppl the help they so desperately need...it's the only thing they deserve

[@CanadianMapleleaf]

Cold hearted, who cares about anyone anymore in Canada, this is embarrassing and expect the same in return for your kids and families in the future. You think we're all addicts, we become addicts because our reality is worse. We we're once, moms and dads, brother and sisters , even grandparents on the street and more coming everyday. What will you do when you get here, what will you expect for help because there will be none...

[@powailai9886]

compulsory cleaning and displacement are essential. people will be provided with jobs and duties, basic accommodation.

[@mickthemerciless9694]

Inhumane.

[@perrybabin8427]

What makes these homeless feel that the city of Vancouver owes them anything? What's the limit? What if 1M more came in, would Vancouver continue to try to give them housing (either free or well below what everyone else pays)?

[@alternateaccount4868]

How do these people survive Canadian winter?

[@91483]

Regular 1 bedroom? Some people work day and night to be able to afford a regular 1 bedroom. What are they expecting.

[@Kid_Kootenay]

Irony is another station was there talking to the people dismantling the camp a fireman who spoke about not being able to reach the water source behind the tent attached to an empty hotel. they evicted the homeless from in front of an empty ex hotel

[@Maxmulham]

Snipers?? That just gave me confirmation that she doesn't know what she's talking about.

[@92skeet49]

Yeah! Good job.

[@NipplesOfDestiny]

"I want to go back to work" made me tear up a bit... How can I help this guy without giving away my things? What can I do exactly?

[@randomdood1089]

I'm thinking of low cost food stands. Give those that want to get back on their feet a chance. It's the best way to keep them off drugs and be productive

[@greg6500]

Refreshing to see a decent person here

[@MegaCassie83]

If you are wealthy build transitional housing and permanent housing. If not and you have access to an industrial kitchen food warm clothing

[@MegaCassie83]

​@@dawss Ues because it's always our fault not a system that's broken. I bet it was my fault that my biological white father raped me right?! Or how about my foster brother trying to rape me at 12?! Oh no wait it's my fault I was raped by different partners right?! Foking inbred have absolutely no education and tell us it's our fault. Maybe you should google who's land your sitting on collecting that welfare check.

[@greg6500]

@@MegaCassie83 Core of the problen right there, The wealthy have all the power and influence and they dont care, They live in their nice little enclaves and dont have to see any of it. So the government who exclusively serves the wealthy will continue to ignore the problem.

[@tenawiebe3164]

Good job to the police. 👍🏼👮‍♂️ We don’t want street full of garbage .

[@rhymeswithteeth]

So glad to see the city is sending the message that these tent cities aren't going to be tolerated.

[@rolonnemarieross7243]

Sniper facing homeless Canadians. How shameful. :( I am so very sad for the people here. Politicians DO NOT CARE!!!

[@javarhinof415al2]

DAMN...WELCOME TO AMERICA❤

[@lucyclarke3523]

It needs cleaned up for certain but there must be a place for people to live! Build apartments with secutity on site. Rehabs, too.

[@randomdood1089]

It's a nice idea but are you going to pay for it? It's often forgotten that the city doesn't have unlimited budget I also think it is necessary to give them a chance to get back on their feet, but that comes when they are willing to be somehow productive members of the society

[@lizliz4186]

​@@shauncameron8390 you're already paying.... You're just paying it through different means. . Ie: security costs, policing costs, 400 fires that the fire dept responded to, homeless shelters, food programs, never exchanges, etc. Use that money in different ways to provide housing instead.

[@lizliz4186]

​@@randomdood1089 you're already paying for it through other services. It's about reallocating money, not necessarily spending more money.

[@randomdood1089]

@@lizliz4186 and like where does that money that got reallocated come from? Unless somehow we find another way to be way more productive in other sectors overnight. We are still getting those money from somewhere right? And how much do you think it's gonna cost to build housing. What are we cutting

[@forreal1276]

1:38 “ they auction it off at the end of the year at police auctions” … I’m not sure anyone would want the homeless left overs… no matter what the item may be

[@user-ck6uw4rn8n]

My thoughts exactly. Lol

[@proudanishnabwe.9582]

Use up those buildings. Houses. That are not rented. Owned. By the city. Build appts for homeless elders. The city needs to find the solution. Plan. To accomedate. Help out the homeless.

[@ericeric463]

All the activist should take them Home

[@Kilerwhale]

I used to be there in early and mid 80’s and yes panhandling on the street and yes I became addicted to drugs too , but I had to make a choice and wake up real hard . Who woke me up ? It’s the woman I was with 13 years older then me . Telling me not to be there no more and with her , cause she was affected by her childhood growing up , like so many of us . To Make this short a bit it’s been 37 years I left Hastings & Vancouver but I thank the woman who has thought me about struggling and to wake up . Yes she may be still there at 73 years and I’m going back there on vacation , and praying & hoping to find her . Waiting for a miracle and taking her off the street 🙏😭🙏 too It’s not everyone who chooses to be there . Many have no choice . So to many of us I say just please / don’t point the finger (s) but instead think of a solution to help each others . We’re all human beings 💔🙏💘💙

[@virnagalli2164]

All this while these same dictators give themselves a raise. DISGUSTING!

[@barlux88]

I understand the housing shortage and the mental health issues but how far is the government supposed to go to support you. I was homeless. 8/10 people I met chose this life. They wanna party and do drugs. They don’t want to work. So many professional panhandlers

[@hermom1114]

I doubt it ...I work down here I have yet to meet someone that chose this life . Stable well adjusted adults do not and would choose this life because that's what your saying ...you are very lucky you had the skills to get yourself out of whatever situation and to succeed. Very lucky ! They aren't partying that is a very uneducated comment and I have yet to meet anyone down here that isn't willing to work ..everybody keeps saying they should get a job well anyone who can offer them one go and offer them one , I don't think anyone would say no I'm busy partying.

[@lorrainec8190]

Clean it up. Just do it. Where are these homeless people's families?

[@treycool2118]

Snipers for this. Joly moly the government knows how to use their money. Snipers in the Native Lands battle and now this. This world is the joke that's killing all my friends.

[@myturn1274]

I can’t afford a one bedroom with a tub. I have a good job and work hard. Does he realize how hard it is to live in these very expensive places? Maybe get housing and job services in a less expensive, not as fun, not as much a destination world class city? I moved here, over time from the small town in the backwater I grew up in. I hated it and dreamed of a city people told me I could never afford to live in. I know I won’t be able to live here forever, and I don’t think it’s my responsibility to keep every person in the style and place they choose at others expense.

[@johnmurray3888]

Ken Sim is the first Vancouver mayor in a great many years with a functioning cerebral cortex. Long-term solutions require critical thinking skills, not mindless ideologies. The homeless cry out: "where are we going to live now? What's your solution?" Our Solution: reopen a modern, improved and enlarged, Riverview. Harm reduction means putting persistent offenders where they can no longer inflict harm on people who are trying to earn a decent living through hard work. Sewage treatment plants are not there for the benefit of the sewage, they exist to protect society from disease. Alas, socialist politicians want to divert all the sewers back into our reservoirs - so that the purity of our drinking water will dilute and somehow miraculously cleanse the sewage.

[@rickreed9525]

Where are people supposed to go when they don't have enough to live?. Shame on these governments plain and simple.

[@greg6500]

Stadiums need new roofs! That kind of crap is always the priority.

[@asmith8947]

Oh come on. The conditions were disgusting for many blocks along East Hastings. The city tolerated it for far too long.

[@greg6500]

@@asmith8947 THEN GIVE THEM HOMES!!!!!!

[@rickreed9525]

Like I've see governments have money for wars. Nothing to feed and house the people struggling. Sick world.

[@greg6500]

@Blanche DurandWow fantastic solution, These people with severe PTSD, addiction issues and NO ADDRESS can just pick themselves up and magically get a job that can afford them a home, even though you need an annual income of $72,000 just to barely afford a basic one bedroom, GOOD FUCKING ADVICE!!!! GOLD MEDAL!!!!

[@TheWolfsnack]

Displacing? They were pre-displaced already....

[@derekd4221]

Build a prison and charge them with enough crimes to be in the prison for 2 years (tresspassing, possession of drugs, destruction of property from shitting everywhere, etc.). This gives the criminals a chance to clean up and have a place to sleep and eat. Let's face it, where they are now is unacceptable. The city is soft with this approach, they have to take a tougher stance. Tough love.

[@beverlydiggs1964]

This is sad to watch

[@dengallardo]

Dangit I dont see them in Richmond now they are everywhere!

[@JojoLoveable-us5qu]

Where are the unprotected people as is Indigenous supposed to sleep?? Could you STOP meeting secretly do they not deserve someone capable to represent them?? Okay it is Monday that's true!!! I'm OUT of Everything including legal invites

[@claytonbaker5858]

So sad..

[@wendimacaulay7993]

I can appreciate both sides of the argument here...but at the end of it all, where are they supposed to go? Many of these people not only have drug problems but mental health issues as well...and the money that should be used to help them, is going to other countries. It's going to fund free drugs. Instead of treatment. Instead of housing. Instead of real solutions.

[@SG-jc5bi]

Good job police !

[@whitelightningyoubet]

this is cruel

[@nedergubis2638]

Looks familiar.😂

[@gnusci]

Should be called Trudeauvilles or Jagmeetvilles

[@TheheavyMentalShow]

I wonder if Limbo have tent citie?

[@fredchampion4059]

Cleansing fire brings joy and renewal 🎉

[@metalkokorea]

terrible canada.

[@DorothyLaplante]

Thank Trudeau for immigration

[@ginnyrue9485]

Good

[@Walter-jv5kr]

Take Hasting street back.

[@kaiyork1727]

Regardless of how you personally feel about the homeless, let's remember that there are enough resources worldwide to house and feed everyone. We're all better than this.

[@dylan15243]

Right... and there is enough work for them to get a job. Food dosnt just magically appear on my plate... why should it on theirs?

[@janetsanti3886]

Build housing program for homeless. 🇨🇦

[@ClarityDetermination]

The planning, if there was any, was sooo bad!