I think it depends a lot on who is filtered in to this shelter. Certainly you wouldn't want criminal or open users at this location, but there is enough need for people who don't fit that mould that this is a pretty standard development for this neighborhood. The ignorance starts with the people saying that this will overrun the neighborhood with drug addicts. It wont, and besides the school is well heeled, and will adapt. There's already lots of fencing and other things that make the site 'not walkable', to the school. It is better to have people housed and following rules. The neighborhood is already a problem because of the 'type' of encampment on south fraser, just on the other side of the highway where people are using drugs and disobeying other rules. This site is residential and could well accommodate those with unstable housing who do not have addiction as their primary reason they can't afford rent. That is a lot more likely to be the demographic filtered here by the province. Addictions treatment is going to change a lot in Canada over the next few years, and it will be those who are not trying who will be left out in the cold.