Downtown Eastside costs $1 million a day

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!