Social breakdown. No access to housing. Opiate epidemic. Hyper alienation. Mental health crisis. This kind of crap was happening in "outlier" cities around Tor

Social breakdown. No access to housing. Opiate epidemic. Hyper alienation. Mental health crisis. This kind of crap was happening in "outlier" cities around Toronto for quite a few years before it got into Toronto proper. Downtown Hamilton, Brantford, London, etc. have been problem zones for years on account of broken down working class people with no prospects and (I'm guessing) opiate or meth addictions. COVID only made it worse. Every public park here in Hamilton has tents all over, basically permanent. The way to start to solve this is to give people housing.