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Vancouver resident here, so I found it interesting that the article called out BC as an example of failed/ineffective policy. And I can't exactly disagree with
by glonq 3y ago
Vancouver resident here, so I found it interesting that the article called out BC as an example of failed/ineffective policy. And I can't exactly disagree with that sentiment -- politicians have spent decades promising then failing to solve the problem.
Our city currently boasts of having a 'four pillars' drug strategy https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/four-pillars-drug-strategy.aspx https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/four-pillars-drug-strat...
...but then really only built maybe two and a half of those pillars. We built a wobbly chair and then wonder why people keep falling off of it.
- Whoppertime 3y agoIt just seems like the policy incentives in Vancouver are designed to erode the middle class. Allowing open air drug use and homelessness which creates a permanent underclass. More than half of VPD files in shoplifting crackdown did not result in charges, so petty theft and vandalism reduce the profitability of middle class business owners. And neither the poor nor middle class can afford to buy property in the city, making it a city that appeals to the very rich and desperately poor and squeezes the life out of anyone in between