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^This exactly.
I'm not saying you should keep voting for the "libs", not once did I ever say that. To Trudeau's credit, though, he has increased funding for non-market housing which is a huge step to tackling this problem.
What I'm saying here is people who criticize the Libs and proclaim PP will be the savoir to this problem are completely wrong. No one wants to admit that this problem is essentially unsolvable in the short-term, and conservative austerity is not the solution.
The other reality? We can't build fast enough, we can't hire or educate fast enough.
Reopen Riverview? Sure, how long will it take to rebuild the facilities? Where are the contractors to do so? Open more hospitals, where will you find the nurses and facility folks to work there?
I was talking to a friend who works at city hall recently and he said something so true, I wish more politicians would come out and just admit.
We can do essentially nothing to fix this current generation of people who are actively on the streets, there is no way to really fix this for those people.
Instead what we should concentrate on is the future upcoming generation of families and young ones to ensure they don't end up like the folks currently out there -- This means funding for affordable family housing (not SROs), co-ops, bolster public education, help mid-to-low income families with said housing and career/educational support.
If we can better stem the problem in the future, we can tackle this in the long-term.
That's the reality no one wants to talk about.
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