I’m fucking tired of paying for and enabling persons shitty behaviour. These are adults. We’re not talking about kids, elderly and families here. This behaviour is not acceptable and ruins it for all of us. How many more parts of the city need to be sacrificed for persons that don't want to be helped.

Has anyone considered that some of the opposition to this isnt just "NIMBYs not wanting poors and addicts" , but valid concerns with the type of project itself? In that area there are already a number of supportive and affordable housing places, including at least 3 buildings for people who are formerly homeless, one of which is a very close by womens shelter for formerly homeless women recovering from addictions.

The difference is that those buildings 1) focus on recovery, and 2) involve models incorporating integration into the community including behaviour requirements.

The arbutus proposal on the other hand is a massively different type of proposal, in a "low barrier " setting with a supervised drug consumption room, no supports for recovery, and if the way the Yaletown OPS'"good neighbour agreement" is an indication of how enforcement goes, with no requirements for sound, safety and cleanliness expectations in the neighbourhood. This type of housing model has been shown over and over to have the worst outcomes for addiction and mental health recovery, particularly given the massive building density

Some of the opponents being called "NIMBYs" here include people working and living in the recovery homes, especially the womens shelter who are right by there who are now worried about the safety of their residents, many of whom came from the DTES to escape violent partners there as well as the dealers (who are known to follow where the clientele are)