[news] U.N. Observer Blames 'Misguided Policy' for Vancouver's Homeless Crisis

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

"It's glaringly apparent in Vancouver that for quite some time... successive governments have failed to create the housing that is necessary. You have a legacy of misguided government policy that has led to this massive crisis in housing and homelessness...The decrepit nature of SROs, the conditions of the buildings that people are living in, very poor health...I was repeatedly struck by the contrast...[T]here has been so much investment. It is striking that a few blocks from million-dollar condominiums, that there is such immense poverty."

--**Miloon Kothari**, UN Special Rapporteur for Housing 

  


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