| # | Your Postal Code | Comments/Ideas |
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| 151 | V5Z 1Z1 | I support more low income housing in vancouver, particularily the east side. |
| 152 | Anonymous | |
| 153 | V5A 4S8 | Even temporarily, the space would be a useful refuge for the homeless this winter. |
| 154 | V8T1X9 | Homeless people need Homes Now!
If people really want to get physically fit trying following a homeless person's daily diet and agenda. That will sure help everyone get into shape and out of sights of those who don't want to see their family members out on the street. |
| 155 | V6J 1L1 | What a brilliant way to house the sad people we pass everyday on the streets. Whatever reason could there be against this -- at least for the winter. I'm ashamed to have such a hard heart towards my fellow vancouverites. |
| 156 | V6G 3L3 | To the Vancouver City Councillors,
A spa is in the business of selling luxurious treatment to people who have more disposable income than many. A shelter is a minimum mark of care and respect for a fellow human being in dire straits financially and/or otherwise. In comparison, it seems obscene for a city building to go toward further unnecessary choice for the people with plenty, when the many with next to nothing are in desperate need of something as basic as a bed indoors. A wealthy city's mean-spiritedness, as expressed in the dividing bars on bus benches, could be mitigated now with a change of plans for Storyeum. Please make Storyeum a shelter. |
| 157 | V5Z 2B9 | |
| 158 | V5N 4T7 | |
| 159 | Anonymous | |
| 160 | V5L 4G7 | |
| 161 | V5L 5G4 | It would be fitting to use Storeyum as a shelter as it will then hopefully be a part of turning around some of our shameful history of ignoring and persecuting homeless people. |
| 162 | V6J 1W5 | |
| 163 | V6A2S9 | I do not believe that the city should be competing with existing tax paying businesses already in the fitness and entertainment business. They should be using their property to provide services not provided by the private sector. The need of a shelter is the perfect use for this property owned by the city. The city has an obligation to note compete with tax paying businesses such as the YWCA and other fitness centres. When the city starts competing with businesses paying taxes and struggling then they are undermining the community. The lack of affordable shelter in this city competes with no one thus providing affordable shelter will only help the bottom line of the city tax payers. Because giving shelter to these people opens up a new labour pool of affordable labour much needed in this city by small businesses.
-Colleen Carroll Main and Hastings |
| 164 | V6A 3G5 | |
| 165 | V6K 2A7 | |
| 166 | V5S 3S9 | The number of homeless people in Vancouver is ever-increasing. If we can't address the root cause, let's at least treat the symptoms. |
| 167 | V5Y 1R6 | |
| 168 | Anonymous | Vancouver has more and more homeless. Let's provide a place for them, instead of building yet another fitness centre. |
| 169 | V4V 2B3 | I don't live in Vancouver at the moment (my postal code reflects this), but I've spent eight months of the last two and a half years down there and plan to live there more permanently later, and homelessness struck me as a very real problem with very real costs. I strongly believe that Vancouver would be vastly more improved by a homeless shelter than by a spa. |
| 170 | V6Y 1M3 | |
| 171 | V3E 3R3 | |
| 172 | v5k1v7 | |
| 173 | Anonymous | |
| 174 | Anonymous | |
| 175 | Anonymous | |
| 176 | v3n0a9 | The street of East Hasting is getting so full of homeless people. I grew up around there and I've never seen so many homeless people on hasting before. |
| 177 | v5h 4r6 | |
| 178 | v3s 1b1 | |
| 179 | abdul-rahaman | |
| 180 | m1s1c5 | |
| 181 | V3X 1J7 | |
| 182 | Ferris | Let them sleep in peace. |
| 183 | Ferris | Let them sleep in peace. |
| 184 | Ferris | Let them sleep in peace. |
| 185 | v6a 2z7 | |
| 186 | v6a 2z7 | |
| 187 | V8B 0G4 | |
| 188 | v3b 2a3 | |
| 189 | v3b 3k9 | make it a shelter! |
| 190 | Anonymous | |
| 191 | V6M 1A3 | |
| 192 | v2xog7 | |
| 193 | Anonymous | |
| 194 | Anonymous | I think converting Storyeum is a terrific idea! Most importantly for the humanitarian need to help those less fortunate & 2nd'ly a wiser expenditure of tax money to benefit the good of all people! |
| 195 | v5n 4r5 | I think we should use a different word than "shelter" and cater to the sensibilities of the global tourist and VANOC, let's call it reality tourism and re-mount the opera "condemed" about the downtown east side, have it open 24/7 have a soup kitchen where you can PAY to eat with the homeless - buy them dinner, watch a little theatre and participate in a healing circle with some of the residential school survivors. ..take in a few recycling tips from the locals and I HAPPILY WILL VOLUNTEER TO HELP start and maintain this for a break on a few of my parking tickets. mindfully, Molly Caron. |
| 196 | V8B0C2 | I was born in Vancouver..but I`ve lived and worked and raised a family in Squamish B.C. We recently came down to Vancouver to have dinner and a show...thought we`d check Gastown area as we hadn`t leisurely walked that area for awhile. My God! What has happened to my City? We fled...no dinner ..no show..
Is it a lack of will? a dirth of imagination? I`ve been in major cities around the world in my 63 years and have never seen anything remotely close..even in the slums of Karachi.
Surely we have the resources and imagination to begin to deal with homelessness and mental illness in Vancouver.
It is bloody shameful.
Eric Pawlett
Squamish B.C. |
| 197 | V5H 2M6 | |
| 198 | V6Z 3H4 | I think the City has to take action immediately to help the homeless of the DTE. At the same time, I think they need a hand UP, not a hand OUT. First and foremost, the homeless need medical attention, drug rehabilitation, healthy food, programs to help them find WORK (if able-bodied), and a safe place to sleep at night. Handing out condos is not the solution. |
| 199 | V5H 4T4 | |
| 200 | V5N 1G9 | |