They closed down the mental hospital which put a lot of people on the street who shouldn't be on the street and left no place for new people in need.

Then we have other cities and provinces giving homeless people one way bus tickets to here to get rid of their own problem.

(Edit And then it's the best climate in Canada if you are going to be homeless so they make their own way here often enough as well. )

Among a lot of things that can be done, we really need them to reopen the mental hospital. A lot of those people just won't get the support they need via other services.

Try growing up super poor there. I've been homeless there, there's loads of great people who just want to help you clean up your life and get off the street...annnnd there's people who see you and throw a few pennies at you and consider it their charitable contribution to society for the year, all while pinching their nose and stepping practically in the street to stay as far away from you while feeling good about themselves.

The existence of a bad thing doesn't make this any less a good thing.

Literally just like any other affluent city of similar size in NA right now lol

One thing to note is Alberta would give their homeleas a one-way bus ticket to Vancouver (claiming that the weather is safer for the unhoused, which it is) so we get extra people without shelter, on top of not having a cohesive plan

In Ontario we just ignore the homeless people and then pat ourselves on the back anyway.

Where are you from? This has been the way of it in major cities in Canada or the US for decades.

At some point, people get tired of watching the sandwich you bought for that "hungry person" get tossed in the garbage or the dude who "just needs bus fare home to his family" hitting you up months later with the same spiel