Ending Chronic Homelessness

[neonjoe]

Condo sales are sliding, right? If putting the homeless and substance addicted people into garden sheds like they're a Trailer Park Boys character is a good idea, maybe tax payers can begin to subsidize the housing of such people in all these unsellable/rentable condo units we see in all Canadian urban centres. We put them into hotels during the pandemic and that did wonders for the problem of chronic homelessness (and very much helped "flatten the curve"), so doing something like that ought to help. It's certainly cheaper than repairing and mitigating the rhizomic causes of homelessness and related issues as well as offers a much more tangible "out of sight, out of mind" solution than what our provincial judges like Michael J. Valente have been able to provide when he declared that the most ideal solution to homelessness in Waterloo Region was to create an actual Homeless Ghetto so they could all live in harmony next to a busy intersection.

Or maybe like...pull our heads out of our asses and use some of the solutions we've known have always worked.

I do believe that some of the grassroots programs like ABTC or the Tiny Home takeout have a better outcome than the government programs. It may just be that those administering the programs are doing it more out of a sense of their own humanity rather than the bureaucratic/reelection need. Maybe we move more towards funding these non government agencies than expecting the government itself to solve the problem. There isn't an easy solution. The alternative is what some municipalities or our southern neighbours believe the solutions is, give them a one way bus ticket out of town and make them someone else's problem. 
We can all help by utilizing our charitable donation income tax deductions towards improving our own community by supporting those who can actually support those in need. Actions do far more than complaining about the issue at hand and doing nothing to actually make a difference.
Nonetheless I have never felt uncomfortable walking by Weber/Victoria I've done so many times with my daughter while waking from the parking lot at Waterloo St to the GO Station. The homeless in Waterloo Region harmless, they only are scary if you choose people different than yourself are scary.