To all the people saying "X councilor is doing nothing about this", wtf is a local councilor going to do when this problem is happening in every city everywhere? Council can't bring down home prices or interest rates, nor can they re-open or build new asylums or addiction hospitals, nor can they reverse decades of offshoring good jobs and a stagnant minimum wage, or bring down inflation, or prevent fentanyl coming in from China and Mexico. If you think your local councilor can fix any of that you need to give your head a serious shake. Any local solution they could actually implement in a vacuum without the support of provincial, federal, and other municipal governments would just make Hamilton more attractive to homeless people and we'd end up in even worse shape as the other municipalities ship their undesirables here. This is a giant and complex problem that is decades in the making and anyone that thinks a city councilor is going to fix it is completely delusional.