Does VANOC wants to help homeless and poor in Vancouver Downtown?
We found a great article at http://www.rantvancouver.com/2007/02/13/to-the-anti-poverty-committee/ written by Vikrim
To the Anti-Poverty Committee
I then did a little digging and found out that VANOC has a program in place working with organizations to help downtown eastside residents get jobs with all the construction work slated in the next 3 years. They also have several programs in place to provide low-cost housing after the games are completed - housing that would have never been there if the Olympics didn’t happen (so no, you wouldn’t have gotten the taxpayer money that went to 2010 anyway morons!). For example: The city has already set aside land to be used for low-cost housing but is currently negotiating with the Province and Feds to provide the actual housing. With that, the Olympics are bringing in these temporary and portable facilities to house media and the like in Squamish during the games. When the games are done they are donating all that housing to be used on said land. Again - would not have happened without the Olympics! And there are plenty of other “legacy” programs they’ve initiated to work with first nations and battered women etc, and they have the highest standards in terms of their sustainability policies both internally and externally. Clearly the folks down at the Anti-Poverty Committee either aren’t informed or simply choose to ignore facts.
We want to believe but it’s too good to be true … and by the way our beautiful British Columbia already cut a lot of social programs including child welfare and homeless prevention while enjoying 3 billion dollars surpluses last year and expecting more in this year. Cheers!!! VancouverGo
