tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088226422072866788.post7745259227231179068..comments2024-03-27T22:35:59.040-07:00Comments on Michael Geller's Blog: The deplorable state of streets and lanes in Vancouver's Downtown Eastsidemichael gellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08988502321448301128noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4088226422072866788.post-3191067318699499182017-11-03T12:58:39.246-07:002017-11-03T12:58:39.246-07:00Give me a break. You are the deplorable one, as an...Give me a break. You are the deplorable one, as an architect you live a life of privilege and are a part of a system which is basically committing a displacement atrocity. That is when by knowingly depriving people of necessary resources the criminal killers exterminate a group of marginalized undesirables. Think trail of tears and marches during the Armenian genocide and what is happening in myanmar. The removal of a so called dirty sro leads to people who have in many occasions just gotten off the streets back on them where they could slide back off maintenance therapy and OD and where they could freeze to death or catch a fatal illness. It also, in the cities plan outlines these policies, 70/30 yuppie/DTES resident. With the goal of connecting east and west van in the same hollow lifeless glass skyscrapers that even youth and the middle class are being renovictes from. Gentrification is often a emergent phenomena but the DTES plan is a document for social cleansing. Removal of shelter rates adds another policy that is deplorable. It is a goal to homogenize Vancouver not normalize it, just like during the Olympics to sweep this eyesore, as they and you view it, away from public view as Gregor having failed so dramatically and with such disrespect for human lives has with his policies driven the homeless population up exponentially instead of ending it by 2015 like he said he would. But really what do you expect from a millionaire chronic liar with a passion for developer payouts and wanting to create a glass facsimile of a city that's a global city. Instead the draft for the DTES outlines policies everyone involved knows will kill, renovictions, forced evictions, planned gentrification and planned removal of the homeless and poor DTES residents from their community, knowing its one of the worlds worst drug crisis ever, knowing social housing is needed, knowing people will die. The continued inaction by BCs two last government (with this coalitions betrayal of us by giving more money to the disreputable VPD who are about as much to blame with the war on drugs as the developer/vision knowingly sending people to die). There needs to be an inquiry into this multilevel human rights atrocity. As an architect and someone privileged your posts about cleaning up the DTES reek of dehumanization and paternalism. Plus you are on their side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com