Kind of amazing. In my head this is basically saying "we can’t protect people in parts of downtown Vancouver and rather than change that, it may just be easier to abandon the area.
I wonder how the businesses around there are doing. If the area is getting worse, those restaurants and shops probably need to move out which makes the area even more abandon.
I think it’s worth noting the dynamics here. It’s a lawyer’s group that was requesting this and the premier said there were no plans to change the location. We can’t truly know, but in my head, my kneejerk response was to get the feeling the lawyers also didn’t want to be in a neighbourhood that reminds them of the existence of poor people (outside of those they work with, of course, who are usually trying to dress up).
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