Yes the encampments have definitely made things worse I can agree on that front - I felt like I woke up one day and they were suddenly everywhere, where we NEVER had that issue pre-pandemic that I can recall..
perhaps we should stop shoveling people into our city under the guise of it being a sanctuary city promising them the world and then having nowhere for them to stay.. or the new law where the people who import here don't have to pay property interest? I literally juts heard about this yesterday so I am not too too specific on those details.. So they can just buy up places then rent them to people they want to rent to? I heard someone was trying to get a rental for him and his partner and they wanted a background check and they stated they didn't make enough for them to rent to them, even though they could cover the rent.. (that and sometimes people of certain ethnicities buy them up and will only rent to people of the same ethnicity, I've heard of that being a problem too..)
also we are definitely going to have a utilities issue at some point as its already crumbling and we're piling up condos everywhere which is going to tax that existing system. Hamilton is just OLD. It's old and its crumbling and yes getting people to live here is important, and low income housing, but one also has to understand the issue of vagrancy and the fact some people will always just be.. destructive, and whether that's just bad apples or drug addled brains we need more funds allocated to more security forces to deal with it, and places to put these people, either to detain them or reeducate or rehabilitate it. It might be migrants who come from different walks of life and bring their violence here - it might be people pissed off at the rising prices of gentrification and are acting out, or it might just be the crackheads or gangs that have developed.
There is going to be a transition period where the destructiveness and homeless clashes with the new higher class of people living in these areas. It might scare tenants and businesses away and then we may just be left with spotty or vacant new developments. The big thing is moving all the services somewhere that ISN'T right in the core, and healing the original intention of the core. One only has to look at the 40s and 50s to see what downtown used to be like - high quality stores, department stores, people with manners and respect, a more ma and pa stop type atmosphere. Naturally our world has changed now and we have to understand how our city can evolve to meet our new modern needs. We no longer frequent ma and pa shop - a lot has moved online, manners and basic communication skills at times have eroded away, everyone has turned narcissistic and localized, and the concept of status no longer exists that existed in the 40s and 50s.
Sooo what will we become?
