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Originally Posted by whitev70r
To be fair the $$$ might come down from Feds but I feel that much more is on the municipal level when it comes to the poverty issue of addictions, homelessness, mental health. On a related note, DTES is as worst as I've seen it. It is like a third world country.
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Vancouver is on a crash-course to end up like many of the American west coast cities. Over run by walking zombies and a downtown where people are scared to go.
I think this has more to do with the municipal level as you said but laws and the criminal code which have obviously been softened under the libs can have some impact to the current situation.
980 had some business owners downtown on lately and they are basically at their wits end in terms of feeling helplessness. Store fronts and windows smashed 3/4/5 times in a single month and when they catch the people they are back out the same day after their 50th offence.