The Pivot Legal Society

this is a very active organization that takes on cases that involving vancouvers homeless. what they have become however is an overzealous, attention seeking group of grandstanding lawyers who are interested only in creating melodrama to benefit their own attention seeking agenda.

their primary platform has been housing for low income earners, namely crackheads and junkies. and they have a very strong position on keeping affordable housing in the DTE for the crackheads. Here's my problem, why is there such a strong insistence from groups like these, and other radical left wing advocates of the junkies to keep them in the DTE?

Vancouver downtown areas are some of the most expensive real estate markets in Canada. The DTE is currently dotted with many low income properties. you can spot them a mile away. they are decaying, dirty filthy and attract drug dealers and all manner of bad seeds. now the radical left wing loonies, like to complain hi and dry about the condition the owners keep these buildings in...but let me ask you something. if you owned real estate in the DTE, and you were forced to rent it to crackheads at discount rates, crackheads who defecate, use drugs and destroy your apartment, would you spend money on remodelling it?

the other issue is money, why on earth would you spend money housing crackheads in expensive inner city real estate, when you could house 4 times as many in lower cost areas? why put these people on the doorstep of their vices and addictions? why put so many disaffected and challenged people together in one place? none of it makes any sense, but if you raise one question about any of this, you will be met with instant and swift barrage of abuse from a legion of social welfare advocates.

I agree people have a right to housing, but not housing wherever they want it....otherwise all of us would like to trade up to newer neighborhoods. if people are going to accept help and housing, they should do so on the terms and in the location that makes sense, and the DTE makes NO sense.

If the DTE is ever to change, and cast aside it's drug addicted alley ways and war zone image, we have to change the makeup of the residents. we have to remove the crackdens and so called "low cost housing" and replace it with families, young professionals, businesses and entertainment. (not methodone clinics and pharmacies and pawn shops).