Comments on: Vancouver City Council urged to adopt seven changes to limit public camping

By: Pat Sperry

Pat Sperry — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:41:15 +0000

Here is how I see this problem. As a clean addict for many years now I was once on the street but I was able to keep my job. If we want to clean up this problem the fix isn’t just free housing. If we are going to spend lots of money why not make it count. Offer free mandatory treatment and as part of the plan they have to get a part time job to start with. Have them learn how to be a self sufficient person. After this is established have to add some of the cash there earning go to pay for a percentage of the Rent and food. Utilities and get them into a normal routine. I was lucky enough to realize I didn’t want to be an addict all my life and I put myself through treatment 35 years ago and made AAA my go to almost every night for over a year. It worked for me and it would work on a large % of people. Just giving an addict free housing is a bad idea. Thanks for all your doing to help our community.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:27:23 +0000

You say “What the City is doing now is not working.” How true, how true!

It is time for a new direction for Vancouver City. This next election must result in Mayor annie ogle and several of the City clowncil being shown the door.

Homelessness visibility increasing
Fourth Plain and other streets being ridiculously striped to restrain flow of traffic
Downtown parking being trimmed down, with prices being raised
Elimination of parking altogether on Columbia for the 3? bicyclists per day
Tax deferrals and/or forgiveness for developers, while my property taxes increase due to “lack of funding”
annie ogle’s involvement in the debacle of fire-Michelle-Belkot-cuz-she-speaks-up-for-constituents
City clowncil’s desire for exorbitant costs and tolls for a bridge that achieves nothing other than to bring the choo-choo to Vancouver

We need changes!

By: Bob Koski

Bob Koski — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:09:50 +0000

I’m very glad to see this, but I doubt it will convince City Clowncil to change their current policies of Homeless Musical Chairs/Whack-A-Mole. The biggest problem we have here with the so-called homeless is their ability to refuse services, while continuing to squat in their own filth on public property.

If local government would stop enabling these vagrants, and restricting what law enforcement can do about it, this mess will never improve. Unfortunately the only plan the City if focused on is their 10-year plan for a low/no barriers “bridge shelter” up in Van Mall neighborhood.

This whole issue should be front and center of every single City Council race this Fall. What the City is doing now is not working.