TLDR : they don’t know what caused it, the “display board” (horrible advertising screen) was damaged, didn’t say if anyone got hurt, and the fire was fuelled by “rubbish” – last week it looked like they had piles of bikes there, not very flammable but they probably had lots more stuff.
We shouldn’t have any homeless camps
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Haven’t been round there in a while, but isn’t there a street food market quite close to this? Maybe something flammable was left around.
The lack of humanity for homeless people in here is crazy
I guess human being only count if they have a house
That’s terrible
I hope they can fix that screen
I’m old enough to remember the homeless “city” that sprung up in the tunnels at waterloo, cardboard city.
Homelessness is a problem that can be solved.
But don’t blame the homeless. The support systems are threadbare. Most of these people have issues they need help with but the help isn’t there.
I moved here from Vancouver. I can tell you yes we need compassion, and that’s why we need places for them. But we cannot let this continue. Homeless encampments have a tendency to grow and have serious negative consequences for the city. Fires are extremely common. Theft, assault, rampant property damage, human waste etc. This area is becoming awful to go to.
In Vancouver if you park a car downtown you leave the window open and no valuables because otherwise it will get smashed just to check. Bike chop shops run out tents with all the hazards that entails. Not to mention open drug use and needles. After 10-15 years people of a normally progressive city are starting to vote for the far right just to stop the crime that comes with homeless camps.
We aren’t there yet but it’s on the horizon. Stop it now. There is nothing good in letting camps be.
Edit: and the “what can we do??” Question does have an answer. You keep breaking up the camps, and when you catch them committing crimes you prosecute. Prison. Not for the drugs but for the theft, damage and assault which WILL happen. Vancouver tried to be lenient given addiction and it led to a sense of impunity. When a homeless addict ends up with multiple thefts and assaults on record, put them in prison.
My brother is homeless. We tried everything to help him, we took him in to live in my house initially and we tried our best, but with my young children we couldn’t in the end.
He kept with drugs even though we got him as much help as we could. But he was leaving needles and drug stuff around the house, violent and psychotic and stealing money from us.
For the sake of my children the arrangement couldn’t work out.
He tried shelter and all that but it didn’t work out. I blame my brother for being homeless, we had a poor but otherwise normal upbringing and we did everything in our power to help him, but he was a lazy, violent addict who we could not have in our lives in the end and it breaks me what happened.
why out of nowhere we are having a ton of homeless camps everywhere?
where are all these homeless coming from? it went from 0 to 100 in 18months
Most of the homeless I’ve seen are Romanian gipsies… this is coming from a romanian gipsy
i’ve walked past those particular tents a few times – they have a stove in there. It more closely resembled a soup kitchen than a “homeless camp”
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some of it is still there.
Mixed feelings
TLDR : they don’t know what caused it, the “display board” (horrible advertising screen) was damaged, didn’t say if anyone got hurt, and the fire was fuelled by “rubbish” – last week it looked like they had piles of bikes there, not very flammable but they probably had lots more stuff.
We shouldn’t have any homeless camps
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Haven’t been round there in a while, but isn’t there a street food market quite close to this? Maybe something flammable was left around.
The lack of humanity for homeless people in here is crazy
I guess human being only count if they have a house
That’s terrible
I hope they can fix that screen
I’m old enough to remember the homeless “city” that sprung up in the tunnels at waterloo, cardboard city.
Homelessness is a problem that can be solved.
But don’t blame the homeless. The support systems are threadbare. Most of these people have issues they need help with but the help isn’t there.
I moved here from Vancouver. I can tell you yes we need compassion, and that’s why we need places for them. But we cannot let this continue. Homeless encampments have a tendency to grow and have serious negative consequences for the city. Fires are extremely common. Theft, assault, rampant property damage, human waste etc. This area is becoming awful to go to.
In Vancouver if you park a car downtown you leave the window open and no valuables because otherwise it will get smashed just to check. Bike chop shops run out tents with all the hazards that entails. Not to mention open drug use and needles. After 10-15 years people of a normally progressive city are starting to vote for the far right just to stop the crime that comes with homeless camps.
We aren’t there yet but it’s on the horizon. Stop it now. There is nothing good in letting camps be.
Edit: and the “what can we do??” Question does have an answer. You keep breaking up the camps, and when you catch them committing crimes you prosecute. Prison. Not for the drugs but for the theft, damage and assault which WILL happen. Vancouver tried to be lenient given addiction and it led to a sense of impunity. When a homeless addict ends up with multiple thefts and assaults on record, put them in prison.
My brother is homeless. We tried everything to help him, we took him in to live in my house initially and we tried our best, but with my young children we couldn’t in the end.
He kept with drugs even though we got him as much help as we could. But he was leaving needles and drug stuff around the house, violent and psychotic and stealing money from us.
For the sake of my children the arrangement couldn’t work out.
He tried shelter and all that but it didn’t work out. I blame my brother for being homeless, we had a poor but otherwise normal upbringing and we did everything in our power to help him, but he was a lazy, violent addict who we could not have in our lives in the end and it breaks me what happened.
why out of nowhere we are having a ton of homeless camps everywhere?
where are all these homeless coming from? it went from 0 to 100 in 18months
Most of the homeless I’ve seen are Romanian gipsies… this is coming from a romanian gipsy
i’ve walked past those particular tents a few times – they have a stove in there. It more closely resembled a soup kitchen than a “homeless camp”
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Hope they find somewhere safe to stay. There’s a large house that’s hardly used just down the Mall.
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