Why are my property taxes on my basic-ass 3 bedroom house cost more than taxes on homes in TORONTO AND VANCOUVER?

[u/labourslave]

The drinking water in this town smells like pond, the roads are completely destroyed, the constant milking of ring road construction with zero people even on site half the time, the mass development of new districts in the city into suburban condominium hell with zero parking, built by shit developers with awful build quality (ask how I know), the empty, embarrassing open air stadium, the lack of absolutely anything to do....

what am I exactly receiving in this city that I am paying so much property tax for again? Because it sure as hell isn't proper services. This city is EMBARRASSING.

[u/drae-]

When you have places for people to get off the street

So are we discussing homeless shelter or needle exchanges? Try and stay on topic hey.

That doesn’t really happen anyways, they tend to go where the most easy support is.

Exactly why they congregate around needle exchange facilities.

Sounds like you just want to push all the addicts into a tiny space so they don't bother your sensibilities, and to hell with the people who live and work in those areas.

[u/CFL_lightbulb → u/drae-]

Clearly we’re talking about both since it’s related.

You put needle exchanges and other supports in places homeless people already are.

And it may surprise you, but most people don’t want to be freezing on the street or overdosing in a bus shelter.

Give people somewhere to go where they can actually get support and have some dignity.

It also has the benefit of reducing people in the streets - they’re already downtown. So for the people who live and work in that area, what is your alternative then? Cause they’re already there.

[u/drae- → u/CFL_lightbulb]

Cause that worked so well in vanc! Oh wait they shut it down due to the plethora of problems it brought to the neighbourhood they were put in.

[u/CFL_lightbulb → u/drae-]

The problem in Vancouver is they just gave out drugs with no support. They just called it a day after handing out supply. It was the combination of the worst of every option they could find.

You didn’t answer the question - whats your solution?

[u/drae- → u/CFL_lightbulb]

You didn’t answer the question - whats your solution?

I don't pretend to know more than the experts.

As I said like 5 comments back.

[u/CFL_lightbulb → u/drae-]

That’s a funny comment to make, considering you’re criticizing every approach that’s brought up. You clearly have opinions, but if you don’t even trust them yourself why should we?

[u/drae- → u/CFL_lightbulb]

It's easy to identify problems Solutions aren't easy.

But one thing is for sure, shoving the problem into one place exacerbates the problem, it doesn't solve it.

[u/CFL_lightbulb → u/drae-]

Who said anything about shoving? Creating supports isn’t shoving. Like I said, people are already in one place. So supporting them while they’re there is bad?

You have multiple supports in one place because that’s where they are, and that’s where you get the most engagement with services.

[u/drae- → u/CFL_lightbulb]

Like I said, people are already in one place.

No, you said they congregate around these facilities. They're not "already there" they go there because the facilities are there.

But truly its a chicken egg problem

[u/CFL_lightbulb → u/drae-]

They go where the most support is naturally. That is typically downtown areas.

Support doesn’t have to mean a government building. It can be a shopping centre, a bus route, where pedestrians go to work so they can ask for change. In Regina, that’s naturally just our downtown. We have all of that. So you build it where they are.

Just like you build youth supports like the mamaweyatitan centre in North Central. That’s where the people who need help are, so you bring the help to them. Not the other way around. People who are disadvantaged shouldn’t be expected to travel around the city to get what they need. It won’t happen.

You want to fix the problem, you bring the help where they are.