In Toronto, the shelters are for the Black African immigrants and the White Ukrainian refugees, not for White Canadian citizens.
Olivia Chow doesn't care about the homeless, if she did she'd be building apartments and hotels with cheap rent for low income earners, not these pointless shelters that are little more than holes that society's undesirables could be thrown into (so that they don't trouble the beautiful people who actually matter).
If she cared about the homeless, she'd realize that the unhoused are not one hegemonic population who could all be dealt with by using the same solutions.
The immigrants need to be deported, the criminals need to be in halfway houses, the addicts need to be in rehabilitation, the mentally-ill need to be in psychwards, the physically ill need to be in hospitals, the refugees need to be given courses in english language and canadian culture, etc.
The homeless who aren't any of the above need to be given opportunities for employment that are currently unavailable to the unhoused.
Putting any combination of the above categories together is a recipe for disaster, the ex-cons will typically take over the place and prey upon the rest, the whole place falls apart and becomes a living hell for the unfortunates stuck inside. People who are homeless will avoid shelters if they can, only going in out of desperation and lack of alternative options.
There are a lot of street dwellers who would kill for a job, but can't even get themselves an entry level position, that needs to change, and if she gave a damn she'd work on removing the barriers that exist to getting employment as a homeless.
She only built the shelters for two reasons: to get the homeless out of sight, and because she was in the pocket of lobbyists who just want development contracts from the government.
The whole system is corrupt and needs to come down, there is legitimately a conspiracy against homeless people to keep them that way, there is an entire industry that benefits from the homeless epidemic, and as you'd expect the conspirators are the very same organizations that are ostensibly intended to help them.
AntiPostmodernist 0 points 1.7 years ago
In Toronto, the shelters are for the Black African immigrants and the White Ukrainian refugees, not for White Canadian citizens.
Olivia Chow doesn't care about the homeless, if she did she'd be building apartments and hotels with cheap rent for low income earners, not these pointless shelters that are little more than holes that society's undesirables could be thrown into (so that they don't trouble the beautiful people who actually matter).
If she cared about the homeless, she'd realize that the unhoused are not one hegemonic population who could all be dealt with by using the same solutions.
The immigrants need to be deported, the criminals need to be in halfway houses, the addicts need to be in rehabilitation, the mentally-ill need to be in psychwards, the physically ill need to be in hospitals, the refugees need to be given courses in english language and canadian culture, etc.
The homeless who aren't any of the above need to be given opportunities for employment that are currently unavailable to the unhoused.
Putting any combination of the above categories together is a recipe for disaster, the ex-cons will typically take over the place and prey upon the rest, the whole place falls apart and becomes a living hell for the unfortunates stuck inside. People who are homeless will avoid shelters if they can, only going in out of desperation and lack of alternative options.
There are a lot of street dwellers who would kill for a job, but can't even get themselves an entry level position, that needs to change, and if she gave a damn she'd work on removing the barriers that exist to getting employment as a homeless.
She only built the shelters for two reasons: to get the homeless out of sight, and because she was in the pocket of lobbyists who just want development contracts from the government.
The whole system is corrupt and needs to come down, there is legitimately a conspiracy against homeless people to keep them that way, there is an entire industry that benefits from the homeless epidemic, and as you'd expect the conspirators are the very same organizations that are ostensibly intended to help them.