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LETTER: Canada needs to grow up and deal with poverty, housing, homelessness

91Ô­´´ senior critical of government responses to key social issues
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Dear Editor,

Balderdash, claptrap and rubbish.

Why do we feed the homeless with hope by sheltering them in abandoned dreams of prosperity?

Temporary shelters have become the norm in this country instead of the right to be housed in permanent housing. No one is going to tell me with all the housing choices that are available to be constructed that politicians and governments can not come up with a quicker solution to get people off the street and stop the influx of homelessness by engineering the wisdom to utilize our resources and intelligence, and build modular homes or prefabricated low-rise apartments.

Mobile home parks are needed in communities, low interest and no down payment purchasing power for low-income earners to give them the ability to own their own home.

Stability is a concept that must be addressed by politicians and governments if the objective is to secure the future and fundamental values of treating poverty with equality. Equality is the lesson we are learning right now because without addressing the inequality we have right now, we can become the next homegrown homeless person in this society wondering where we will rest our head and what we will be eating.

Here we are in a learning process on how to feed and house people, have we not learnt anything? Are we still in our infancy in this country?

Roll over, Canada, and the people who are need will pat you on your back so you can burp. Maybe the gas that will escape will clear up your light headedness.

Cran Campbell, 91Ô­´´ City

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• READ MORE: More people living on 91Ô­´´ streets and in shelters

• READ MORE: Metro Vancouver homelessness up 32 per cent compared to 2020

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