The upcoming shelter/transition housing behind the Mall…. multi-millions to build, then multi-millions to maintain each year. For what… 150 or so beds? Six million dollars for operating costs, for one year; divided by 150 beds; equals $40,000 per bed for one year. On 31-Dec., they rinse & repeat… for another $40,000 per bed.

Of course there’s the fact that there is BIG MONEY to be made in the homelessness-industrial-complex. It takes a LOT of money to pay all those people a nice salary and the associated benefits that Vancouver City and the various non-profits pay their employees involved in this money-laundering scheme. Right, Jamie Spinelli, the homelessness-czar of Vancouver?

Solution? “Tough Love” is the answer, and you know what that means. Yep, it will be painful at first and there will be a thousand sob-stories. But when the “tit runs dry,” and the homeless get cold enough and wet enough and hungry enough, they will either get sobered-up and find work, move on to someplace else that is giving away freebies, or they’ll overdose and die. Any of the three is fine with me. Just quit throwing away good money after bad.

I’m tired of paying escalating property taxes, year after year, for a problem that is not going away and is seemingly getting worse.