Vancouver also has a broken shelter system. There is too many completely insane people who are homeless, with drug addiction problems who stay at these shelters

Vancouver also has a broken shelter system. There is too many completely insane people who are homeless, with drug addiction problems who stay at these shelters so nobody else goes there since it's dangerous. They sleep in tents or on the street in the open instead. There's also way too many rules, curfews and other nonsense. There's also rampant bed bugs, theft.. nobody in their right mind stays at a shelter. What would really work is opening mental institutions and detox centers and moving those people into them and off the streets. Then the non addict homeless can actually get at services which currently are overloaded with chronic addicts and tent cities will disappear. That is of course until more homeless bus in from other cities without these services and the problem repeats itself. The visible homeless I see everyday are crazy and are not there because of unemployment, they are there because some politician thought it would be a good idea to shut down the mental institutions and toss these people on the streets.