Sunday, January 6, 2008

Garr on City Hall


Week in and week out, the best City Hall coverage comes from the pen of Allan Garr on the editorial page of The Courier.


In Friday's paper, he nails the on-going phantasm of homelessness and how it plays out at 12th & Cambie.


It's well worth a read.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yet some people who are more than capable of working and supporting themselves are able to get into social housing and have the tax payers foot the bill! I know of such a person who, the last time I heard, which was about two years ago, was living in an apartment at 1650 Haro. I did a quick check on Google and it appears that this address may now be for seniors only. However, no doubt the able-bodied person of whom I write has been able to secure social housing elsewhere. If you can spin a good yarn and have a doctor willing to back up your story, you're in, leaving even less housing for the deserving among us. Not to say that this person doesn't have "issues", I mean, not wanting to work is an issue, but those issues should not mean that the tax payer takes care of you when you aren't willing to take care of yourself. The really needy, who aren't sophisticated enough to work the system, are out in the cold, literally.

Anonymous said...

1650 Haro used to be a seniors building but it has obviously changed if younger,capable of working individuals have been placed there

Anonymous said...

Sunset Towers! A seniors building. It
appears that B.C.Housing has decided to place any individual that is considered unemployable in this (and many other B.C.Housing buildings).
I feel for the very elderly in these buildings as they try and cope with the changes.
How kind!!!