Great report from last year on the effectiveness of funding in the DTE:
http://www2.canada.com/audit+urged+host+agencies+downtown+eastside/1295988/story.html?id=1295988
Can you believe $360M goes into that neighborhood from 3 levels of government every year...and it still looks like a warzone. thats nearly $1M a day, to support 5000 junkies, homeless and mental health patients!!! Imagine what could be done if you rounded up all of these various programs, charities, shelters and consolidated that spending into 1 special organization to tackle the problems.
I have been wondering about this myself for a long time. where the fuck is all that money going? to support the industry of the DTE, and all the support groups that want a piece of that pie...can you imagine how much of that money gets to the people that need it!
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And who says the Portland Hotel Society isn't actually a real estate holding company masquerading as a social service.
We could really REALLY use a mental health facility that could care for these people... to bad it was shut the hell down.
er... poorly worded but you get the drift
You're bang on angry! DTE doesn't actually need half the funding it gets. What is needed is better mental health care facilities where people can get long term treatment. If they don't choose to get help so be it...
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