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So the alternative is to allow shanty towns in your cities? I'm from Central America and I can tell you, you'll never get rid of those encampments or fix homelessness. And let's not act like people in those camps are safe from mortality and overdose
If someone would spend the money on it homelessness is absolutely fixable. If Fort McMurray can do it, literally any place can. It just means taxes and actually spending the funds where they are needed rather than padding pockets.
How do you fix the I'll, habitual homeless who refuse aid and programs? Unless you do it by force
That's the excuse everyone uses but can never provide anything that backs up the existence of these people who want to be out on the streets and being treated as less than human. I do not accept that excuse.
Trooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.
What part of Central America?
I've lived in South America in some pretty poor regions where shanty towns and villages exist. Some of them more populated than the Canadian town I grew up in (over 10k people). I felt extremely safe in those communities. I'm also aware of the fact that a little over 100 years ago on my own continent lots of people lived in shacks they built themselves because if they couldn't do that, they were out on the street.
There's nowhere for poor people to go here. If they get kicked out of the larger cities with services they filter out to smaller communities. If they're kicked out of there they move to camps in the bush surrounding even smaller communities. And when they're kicked out of there, where do they go? In the case of Prince George a lot of the homeless are from far-north communties they left for the more populated southern province because conditions can be fucking brutal up there too.
If you're from Central America do some research on the living conditions of the northern latitudes of Canada. When I was a kid (and I suspect this is still a thing) I knew of several people who were doing support/outreach work with volunteer organizations similar to how people from this hemisphere do in African and South American nations.
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