The City is responsible as well. They have to start building affordable housing, Kelowna is for the rich. All the high-rises being built nothing for the middle class who are falling through the cracks
There's no such thing on the open market, how can you control who buys what. More homes built, more investment opportunity for the rich, nothing changes. I don't disagree that more housing is needed, I'm only pointing out that unless it's somehow controlled that it will only be eaten up by those that put us in this situation to begin with, cheers.
Poilievre and his silly slogans calls it " dollars for door" Feds should give funding when the housing gets built instead of giving Provinces and city money without results.
@@hou942 The investors are not the problem as they're the reason any new housing is even built at all. If anything, they're enabled by government intervention that priced and regulated the mom and pop landlords and others out of the market leaving the rich to fill the void.
My coal-mining great grandfather left Scotland and immigrated to Canada well over a hundred years ago. He settled in BC. Part of me feels like I have a “right” to live in BC, yet I still left for Calgary two years ago and bought a decent home there for one-third of what it would have cost in Beautiful British Columbia. Before I did that, I considered moving to Kelowna; however, not only are homes as overpriced there as in Vancouver, but the vast majority of them are for owners 55+. It might be a nice place to live ... but it’s unlivable. Try Edmonton; hundreds of decent one-bedroom apartments there are renting for $800 mo.
@@kyleklukas4808 working in the oil patch isn't the same as living in edmonton or calgary. both of those cities are worth checking out for most people. I mean yeah it won't be living by the sea but for most people who struggle with affordability they are both incredibly comfortable places to live.
The first step to solving a problem is realizing there is one. Thank you Pierre for bringing this to light. Shame on all the other news reporters that bash you for it. It’s a problem and we need a government that cares for its Canadians.
And to the homeless residents who don't like being compared to those in 3rd world conditions... The only reason PP said that was to show how dire your situation is. He didn't do it to say you are bad people, he wanted to show how bad things have become in Canada with JT at the wheel...
@@darrentylor5473 I'm no fan of Trudeau or the Liberals but to blame him for the drug problem is ridiculous. People make bad choices and sometimes they are tragic. What we need are free rehab facilities so there is a place to go when they are ready. There's no point in "helping" a homeless person that is an addict. The addiction will kill them if its not addressed. Props to the homeless woman growing her own vegetables though.
@@FreshAirRules their government is responsible for giving addicts free drugs on taxpayers dime. Yes it is his fault for letting this happen. Overdoes have increased 300% since Trudeau came into office. Yes the liberal/NDP government most certainly is to blame for high crime and overdoses
@@FreshAirRules uh he legalized hard drugs, which makes the young and naive think they are ok bc they are legal... And this isn't about drugs. It's about the cost of living going up so high that people are forced to live in tent cities... You want to tell me you haven't got a problem with the rising cost of living??? Only one man to blame for that...
Get ready for more of this. We have totally wiped out the last rung of the housing ladder. The lowest rung of the ladder is $1500-$2000 a month for a one bed. This is absolutely outrageous. Housing has to have a 60-70% drop. That’s the fix.
Homeless people are being shuffled from municipality to municipality, even buses in from Vancouver to Chilliwack. Rents are out of control and this homelessness will just get worse, as people can't afford the rents out there. It's a nightmare to think one day I'll have to move and I have no where to go, but buy a tent and join the group.....Trudeau has systematically destroyed all that was good and livable . Now thousands struggle everyday! We renters live in fear of having no place to live. Add that to people having NO FAMILY DOCTORS, AND OVERWHELMED FOOD BANKS....CANADA SEEMS LIKE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THAT RUNS FOR THE ELITE IN SOCIETY....WHAT ABOUT THE CITIZENS WHO SLAVED ALL THEIR LIVES TO HAVE A Home AND NOW END UP IN A PERMANENT TENT? WE PAID TAXES , TOO!!!😡😡😡
Except most 3rd-world countries don't have a housing crisis nearly as dire as Canada's as shantytowns exist for those who can't afford to live in the capital or tourist hotspot.
yes high costs of housing is a contributing factor, but from what ive seen in person, most who stay homeless are mostly hardcore drug addicts that refuse help to get housed or get kicked out of them...
We have people living & dying on the streets in EVERY city in Canada! We can’t “ afford” to help them BUT we have immigrants who are put up in motels/ hotels!! It’s madness! All of us somewhere along the line have made poor/bad choices - but to see this here is sad! Oh Canada INDEED!
BS…they literally buy motels and container homes for homeless people to live in. There’s a lot of shelters around. There’s rehab. There’s income assistance. Theres disability. There’s free health care (not full health care) even though it’s messy there’s still access. Health care is messy for a lot of people. There’s a lot of free educational programs, etc. It doesn’t fix the serious homeless problem obviously or the opioid problem, or many other problems especially against the cost of living today but you’re wrong that they do nothing for homeless and only help immigrants. If some psycho in power chose to go to war with Canada, or our government and politicians were even worse than they are now and more corrupt as other countries, or the stock market completely collapsed, etc. we could all be immigrants just as easily. Except for the Indigenous people, we were all immigrants long ago so stop the ignorant self righteous racist nonsense and get educated before you spew so much hate and BS.
I am a ex- homeless person . And my is the country stopped building affordable housing. And one more thing is the federal government is bring to many refugees and others to our country when we dont have enough housing for the people who lives here already .
A sliver of what's going man you just said 8 FUCKIN years, I live in Vancouver I've been down in the dtes For 15 years Iam now 3years clean and sober, and the way I got out of homeless was to get clean and sober Major citys need housing, detox and treatment centres
This is a shame to Canada to BC and Kelowna. I don't have the answers to fix this but I watched this camp go for from 0-1000 over the last few years. What we are doing has failed, time for something new.
isnt that what all the politicians say ? and then once they get the votes, the homeless get pushed to the backburner until the next election rolls around.
It's not an affordable housing or labor crunch. The entire problem is very simply tied to not enough income. People are not getting paid enough. It's not a food problem, or housing problem it's an income problem. No one takes those low paying jobs that wont even pay the rent, that's why you have a "labor crunch". This is what happens when most employment is reduced to a stagnant minimum wage
Let me guess you voted for Christy Clark? Raising minimum wage hurts businesses and raises the prices of everything. The only party that benefits is the government through more income taxes charged... In fact if the wage increase bumps you into the next tax bracket, your take home pay will be less...
Come to Canada as a refugee and get free housing, free bus passes, free food, free education, free, free, free, and Canada gives away billions of $ to other countries but we can't help our own people. We can't even help out our indigenous peoples who live in poverty on reservations.
The first time they tried to set up a designated homeless area, the city put them at the base of Knox mountain , near the lake-shore. Where it was super windy and cold most of the time. And the homeless weren't even allowed to use tents. They had to change the spot when the homeless people stopped coming voluntarily
The worst are the drug addicted street people who take what is not theirs, confront the older generation for money or their personal belongings and leave a disgusting mess wherever they go. They have no respect for others or other peoples properties and care less what destruction they create. AND YOU WANT TO HELP THEM ???
If it's too expensive where you are then you need to move were there are more jobs and more affordable housing.. Why do the taxpayers owe you all housing?
@@TheMcgojoh My point remains the same.....there is an abundance of job opportunities. So, for him to cite that as a contributing factor to the homeless situation does not make sense.
The unemployment rate in Canada is 5% right now. It’s 4.5% in BC at the moment. This has been the lowest since the 70s. Look it up. Healthcare could obviously use much more staff. Ever tried to call a handyman or a plumber or any kind of service? Here in Victoria, BC it’s always a very long wait no matter where you go because there’s never enough employees. Companies have had to close because they couldn’t get enough staff to run their businesses. There’s no shortage of jobs. There’s a shortage a employees. And the unemployment numbers are usually based on seasonal employment where people work in places like the tourism sector for Spring, summer and fall then go on employment insurance for the winter. Teachers and school staff also go on unemployment insurance for summers. There’s winter seasonal jobs on mountains. Spring to Fall yard workers, etc. So actually much less unemployment than the low numbers already say.
Disgusting. It's ruining kelownas downtown area and for someone that grew up there they make it unsafe and disgusting too go downtown anymore. They use kelowna because of the warm weather.
These are human beings. Fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. We need to find solutions. Not all people are bad people Some just need a hand to help get them on there feet. Help the ones who need it most.
I live a block away from here….it’s grown x10 since the fall….yes, it’s as bad as it looks for everybody…including the family neighbourhood on the opposite side of the camera…sirens all the time…check out the stolen bike/bike parts shop on ur next visit CBC.
Excuses by governments! 7 years into an opioid crises, getting worse every year! The management of this crisis is a catastrophic failure. All the money and free drugs spent for what? To make the situation worse every year. Only someone working for a government can possibly rate that as a job well done. Business is desperately looking for people to work and here we have people wanting free housing and drugs and healthcare .
Someone just commented on my post about I’m a decade late blah blah…. There are a lot of $89,000 home available in Canada. Canada is more then Vancouver and Toronto. I’m talking Coast to coast. Tons of cheap homes under $100,000. Look on Kijiji Look on mls There are tons of rvs available for 40k or less and tons of land in Canada 80% of Canada is literally not even used. Everyone is just crowded in the southern areas of the provinces pretty much. Except bc and alberta but even those places have a lot more area to be developed. I travelled the entire country. There is tons more land and resources available There are a lot of cheap homes available for sale. Yes most need work. People are not afraid to do renovations. People are sick and tired of working low paying jobs especially in the trades grinding to the bone for $900 a week if your lucky after the gov takes 30% off your pay. Here is the problem in Canada. I’ll give 3 examples Everyday residential Customers want a job done let’s say a siding job. The business owner will quote $22,000 for a job let’s say. The payroll on the job will be $2200 Business owner takes $5000 while the workers got $645 for the week. Repeat the cycle. End of the year owner buys a new RV and goes on a luxury vacation and the worker buys a sandwich. Scenario 2. Smarter business owner. Does commercial work / insurance jobs, industrial jobs Sends quote for $494,500 for a construction job. Brags to friends, pays their hardest working Forman $4000 for the month and a couple helpers $2600 Repeats the cycle. Buys better rv and cottage, boat and 4 wheeler, new truck etc. $7000 trampoline for kids etc. wife wants a Escalade blah blah Scenario 3 is the ridiculous unthought of things for example Selling oil refinery parts to oil rigs companies as a middle man. Hire 1 guy to work a computer as a middle man. Upselling other manufacturers parts and selling to the oil rigs. Business owner makes 10 million a year and pays his 1 fulltime staff member $55,000 for the year…. Greed and selfishness is the point. I have not met 1 employer who actually cared and rewarded the hard work you do for them. Most 99% are thinking about themselves and you will be replaced in 1 second if you slip up.
There's a lack of housing and the governments both local and federal have fumbled the ball for decades snowballing the problem. Wages are too low and immigration far too high. There are people with jobs who can't afford the rents, if they can find a place to rent and buying for them is an impossibility. I should also add that the social nets aren't big enough. What good is the government's help when the government won't do more than help you pay half the rent and you can't come up with the other half
Is that free camping? I am interested in moving west coast. Very clean. Good city services like garbage removal. Toilets. This is tent city very different from USA
You will get none of that except for free camping, but the police will harass you and randoms will harass you. City officials will force you to take your tent down every night and you're subject to the ever-growing levels of crime...
Living in these desirable locations is not a right. Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are all much more affordable. People need to take accountability by being realistic and start acting their wage. I work almost 70 hours a week and I'm not interested in my taxes being given to those who feel entitled to a free ride. Some people obviously need and deserve support but too many people are sitting around getting high and not contributing whatsoever. I don't doubt that some of these people have good intentions but come on, Kelowna, like other places on the west coast, are aspirational places to live.
Do you honestly think bc doesn't have the space for people? When Canada has no space left in the country will you then argue that they have no right to be a part of our country? No one said anything about taking your damn tax money, We just want a government that actually works. Excuses like the ones you're trying to make are growing too thin... Why should only the rich be allowed to live in British Columbia? Why do you assume they don't work, have you seen the price of rents lately? Are you completely ignorant about the lack of housing being built into the communities? What's your excuse?
@@chronometer9931 Thanks in large part to government meddling. Living in British Columbia is still a privilege. Whether or not the rich should be allowed to live there is irrelevant.
@@shauncameron8390 Who says living in BC is a privilege? Is living in the country a privilege? Where do you draw the line? The reality is that there is not enough construction and thus not enough supply to meet demand so prices keep rising. The situation is entirely artificial...
Although they were probably the most coherent, they are most likely addicts of some kind, you don't live down there if your not. CBC avoiding the real issues - plenty of drugs and lack of proper rehabilitation services.
No need for this at all period! There are many options happening g to build small villages out of small dwellings to give these people a door and a roof over their heads. I built one in Waterloo Ontario. Just google Erbs road shelter Waterloo. People have moved in there from tents. After a few months they have seen that they can actually get people into housing. Hotels rooms is the worst idea, all that does is isolate people. Encampments happened because people need each other so just give me a break. If you’re going to bash an encampment, it should be called community. Shame on all in anyone that talks down on people in encampments. Before you do that take a walk into one and talk to the people there. Then you will know that there is nothing harmful about them!!!!!!
YUP….All the homeless come to the west or better weather and all the free handouts. What’s laughable is their situation. Knock off the opioid cruise too. This guy should give up some of his money and let some stay on his property.
How are you supposed to save anything when you dont even make enough to cover the cost of rent , heat , hydro , car costs (if you have one) gas , insurance and basic food needs ?
So many unused containers in Vancouver. These containers could be used for affordable housing for the homeless. These containers are structural skeletons for housing developments.
The problem is not that we don't have enough resources so it's not relevant that the containers could be used to house homeless as it's unnecessary in the first place
Today's society does not allow for much compassion. Words are not compassion. Money is not compassion. Option 1 There could be a row a 4m x 4m cabins along that bike path. Done as a concerned community the cost would be maybe $5,000 for each. A modern barn raising so to speak. Even less with donated materials and time. Actually teach those there how to be responsible and deal with them as a equal instead of " now listen, here's what WE are going to do for the homeless " Option 2 Involve the local, provincial, federal governments, local businesses. Set up societies to disperse funding, hire union trades to design and build them. Now the price is $50,000 or more a unit. Option 1 is ruled out. While there are people capable of providing the services needed, society today makes it difficult to do Funding, liabilities, insurance, contracts, taxes, permits, studies, research, committee meetings and more guarantee needing so much money, no politician, business or society will spear head a solution. Their conscience mind knows there is a solution but the unconscious mind says, " let's keep talking about it without actually doing anything. We keep our jobs and positions and it makes it look like we're doing something. "
@@rosssmith8481 Without immigration who would staff the hospitals? Society demands a less expensive employee. Where else would you find an employee that will take the bare minimum of employment conditions legally allowed in Canada and be better off than where they immigrated from and happy having job.
@MrPlusses Canada has hired 10,000 doctors and 30,000 nurses since 2015. Yet we still have a shortage. It's just numbers. Where they came from is not the point or my concern.
@@rosssmith8481 And by staff I don't mean doctors and nurses. Take any hospital and look who's doing the actual work behind the scenes. Cleaning, laundry and services are all people who immigrated. No born in Canada Canadian wants these jobs. Well paying with benefits but no one applies. Now hospitals won't hire them even if they would because of cultural and language differences. For every doctor hired I would imagine 2, 3 or maybe 6 support staff need to be hired.
These are our citizens, the problem has never been addressed with a long term plan. Now the numbers will grow so quickly its going to be like a runaway freight train and all Canadians are going to feel it. You need to start taking care of your own@!!
They should have local lotteries (Canada is into lotteries) and the lottery would be to help the homeless in your community. Canada has lotteries for Children's hospitals. How about for the homeless?
Holy Cow, a CBC video I can actually "talk back to"! In our all-too-forsaken Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms the first & most important freedom is described as the "right to security of person". My personal interpretation of that is if we indigent (impoverished in our system with such socio-economic disparity) cannot stay together in parks, on softer ground, with a modicum of privacy from trees & bushes, slightly removed from traffic, then we're alone on the hard, cold unforgiving cement down some dark alley or under a bridge where we're too vulnerable to predators. Besides, what better way to stigmatize this anti-social ill until actual social housing is built? Hmm, just today I heard on CBC radio our BC provincial gov't is building housing for people with around $100,000- per annum income. Is that an insult to the poor or an assault upon? Then aren't our political leaders supposed to represent all Canadians & not only those who voted for them. Geez, even that would be nice, given how industries & corporations are represented before any voter. Really, given how vastly many more & an increasing number of Canadians are relatively poor than super rich, then the vast bulk of representation would swing our way. Please consider doing so for re-election. Otherwise you're just a closet Conservative in liberal garb.
For god sake it's 200 homeless people, not 2000... Sounds as if the city doesn't want to spend money on these folks or fear you'll attract more if you try to house them all...
No there are thousands in BC. The rest stops along the highway from Chilliwack to Vancouver are people living in campers and RVs who go to work every day. The only people you won't find homeless in Canada are refugees and new immigrants.
Spend more time solving this first world affordability crisis. I don't know what " 3rd world" he's talking about. My home country is classified as "3rd world," and we don't have people living like this. I've only seen this in Canada and parts of the US. So it clearly isn't a 3rd world thing. Leave the so-called 3rd world alone. Not only are you spreading stereotypes, but you're dehumanizing the people of Kelowna. Had Mr. Poilievre taken the time to go and speak with these individuals without the fanfare and gave a solid plan on how his government will get them off the street and prevent others from ending up there. I would have been more receptive. Lord knows the current government has mismanaged this country. I'm the average voter that you need to convince... My vote is going towards solid policies that help everyday Canadians. Forget the liberal and conservative bull. Show me you are a man that gets things done. I didn't see that with this one. Just the usual politician lip service.
To get elected, and spend the next 8 years as PM blaming the lack of progress on the previous government. It never ceases to amaze me that people believe one man will fix everything...but they do. Just because PP looks like Clark Kent doesn't mean he is Super Man.
He has given it countless times. He has talked about the drug problem and solutions to fix it and cutting taxes and carbon tax to increase affordability that ends up affecting prices of everything such as transportation shipping costs food and even housing and rent. A simple tax can significantly reduce prices and he just spoke about what he’ll do about the drug problem which most homeless have especially here.
@@UnsettlingDwarf Yeah....he says he's going to sue big Pharma and use that money to fix the drug problem. And you seriously think that is going to happen?
A lot of people get pets when they are in a secure situation, we don't know the future. It becomes irresponsible at some point to give them up. So the answer to your question is that these people are more responsible than you are...
Or abused and traumatized on top of it all and for long after, raped possibly more than once, human trafficked, violated short or long term, traumatized for a lifetime, lost a job and had their home repossessed, lost a child or spouse, was injured and disabled on the job or in an accident, etc. Get educated so you can stop stigmatizing and judging anyone who’s homeless, or turned to drugs to cope a horrific life or event, or has a mental health problem thanks to being bullied by someone like you. You do realize having no compassion or empathy is a big sign of a mental health disorder.?. Mental health is just as important and easier to injure as physical health and they both effect each other. Never expect someone to react to life like you think you would. Until you’ve been in that person’s exact body, brain and lived their exact life, then you can’t judge a soul. Just ask one homeless person what they’ve been through, I dare you. Learn some common sense. Stop the stigmatism! It’s childish and 100% ignorant and cowardly to judge anyone you know absolutely nothing about. People like you often know nothing real about the person closest to you and that’s sad and pathetic. Narcissism at its finest.
@@bradcanning875 no increase in housing will make housing cheaper for everybody which would stabilize the market n prevent more ppl from being homeless we must force cities bc current zoning won't allow it n cities have no desire to change so a higher power like country or province MUST FORCE them
@@NoProjectName the city could donate land to a developer to help cut costs or they could only designate a certain number as affordable n the rest market rate it can be done I know developers wanna make money thats why increasing density is a MUST moving forward
@@trapmuzik6708 Housing will never be affordable as cities have only so much space to go around and people moving in en masse are willing and/or able to pay higher prices for housing including the supposedly affordable ones.
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If I didn't know any better, I would have mistaken Kelowna for Oakland.
The City is responsible as well. They have to start building affordable housing, Kelowna is for the rich. All the high-rises being built nothing for the middle class who are falling through the cracks
Exactly as the city intended.
There's no such thing on the open market, how can you control who buys what. More homes built, more investment opportunity for the rich, nothing changes. I don't disagree that more housing is needed, I'm only pointing out that unless it's somehow controlled that it will only be eaten up by those that put us in this situation to begin with, cheers.
Poilievre and his silly slogans calls it " dollars for door" Feds should give funding when the housing gets built instead of giving Provinces and city money without results.
@@yvettepaulson4967exactly what pollievre said he would do - if cities don't build, they get no federal dollars. Pay attention
@@hou942
The investors are not the problem as they're the reason any new housing is even built at all. If anything, they're enabled by government intervention that priced and regulated the mom and pop landlords and others out of the market leaving the rich to fill the void.
My coal-mining great grandfather left Scotland and immigrated to Canada well over a hundred years ago. He settled in BC. Part of me feels like I have a “right” to live in BC, yet I still left for Calgary two years ago and bought a decent home there for one-third of what it would have cost in Beautiful British Columbia. Before I did that, I considered moving to Kelowna; however, not only are homes as overpriced there as in Vancouver, but the vast majority of them are for owners 55+. It might be a nice place to live ... but it’s unlivable. Try Edmonton; hundreds of decent one-bedroom apartments there are renting for $800 mo.
Sounds insane to me , I did my time in northern alberta . I'm on Vancouver island , best decision I ever made . Good luck .
@@kyleklukas4808 working in the oil patch isn't the same as living in edmonton or calgary. both of those cities are worth checking out for most people. I mean yeah it won't be living by the sea but for most people who struggle with affordability they are both incredibly comfortable places to live.
I’m a US citizen from Las Vegas, NV and I spent a little time living in Vancouver BC and I was appalled at how expensive is it to live there!
Calgary and Edmonton are no longer that affordable
The first step to solving a problem is realizing there is one. Thank you Pierre for bringing this to light. Shame on all the other news reporters that bash you for it. It’s a problem and we need a government that cares for its Canadians.
And to the homeless residents who don't like being compared to those in 3rd world conditions... The only reason PP said that was to show how dire your situation is. He didn't do it to say you are bad people, he wanted to show how bad things have become in Canada with JT at the wheel...
@@darrentylor5473 I'm no fan of Trudeau or the Liberals but to blame him for the drug problem is ridiculous. People make bad choices and sometimes they are tragic. What we need are free rehab facilities so there is a place to go when they are ready. There's no point in "helping" a homeless person that is an addict. The addiction will kill them if its not addressed.
Props to the homeless woman growing her own vegetables though.
@@FreshAirRules their government is responsible for giving addicts free drugs on taxpayers dime. Yes it is his fault for letting this happen. Overdoes have increased 300% since Trudeau came into office. Yes the liberal/NDP government most certainly is to blame for high crime and overdoses
@@FreshAirRules uh he legalized hard drugs, which makes the young and naive think they are ok bc they are legal... And this isn't about drugs. It's about the cost of living going up so high that people are forced to live in tent cities... You want to tell me you haven't got a problem with the rising cost of living??? Only one man to blame for that...
Let's see how big these encampments get when Pierre is PM. This is a symptom of of our culture. Working-class casualties.
Get ready for more of this. We have totally wiped out the last rung of the housing ladder. The lowest rung of the ladder is $1500-$2000 a month for a one bed. This is absolutely outrageous. Housing has to have a 60-70% drop. That’s the fix.
Lol wtf?
Homeless people are being shuffled from municipality to municipality, even buses in from Vancouver to Chilliwack. Rents are out of control and this homelessness will just get worse, as people can't afford the rents out there. It's a nightmare to think one day I'll have to move and I have no where to go, but buy a tent and join the group.....Trudeau has systematically destroyed all that was good and livable . Now thousands struggle everyday! We renters live in fear of having no place to live. Add that to people having NO FAMILY DOCTORS, AND OVERWHELMED FOOD BANKS....CANADA SEEMS LIKE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THAT RUNS FOR THE ELITE IN SOCIETY....WHAT ABOUT THE CITIZENS WHO SLAVED ALL THEIR LIVES TO HAVE A Home AND NOW END UP IN A PERMANENT TENT?
WE PAID TAXES , TOO!!!😡😡😡
Except most 3rd-world countries don't have a housing crisis nearly as dire as Canada's as shantytowns exist for those who can't afford to live in the capital or tourist hotspot.
Only losers end up homeless. No sympathy here
yes high costs of housing is a contributing factor, but from what ive seen in person, most who stay homeless are mostly hardcore drug addicts that refuse help to get housed or get kicked out of them...
We have people living & dying on the streets in EVERY city in Canada! We can’t “ afford” to help them BUT we have immigrants who are put up in motels/ hotels!! It’s madness! All of us somewhere along the line have made poor/bad choices - but to see this here is sad! Oh Canada INDEED!
They've opened up the doors to India and they are so cheap and rude.
BS…they literally buy motels and container homes for homeless people to live in. There’s a lot of shelters around. There’s rehab. There’s income assistance. Theres disability. There’s free health care (not full health care) even though it’s messy there’s still access. Health care is messy for a lot of people. There’s a lot of free educational programs, etc. It doesn’t fix the serious homeless problem obviously or the opioid problem, or many other problems especially against the cost of living today but you’re wrong that they do nothing for homeless and only help immigrants. If some psycho in power chose to go to war with Canada, or our government and politicians were even worse than they are now and more corrupt as other countries, or the stock market completely collapsed, etc. we could all be immigrants just as easily. Except for the Indigenous people, we were all immigrants long ago so stop the ignorant self righteous racist nonsense and get educated before you spew so much hate and BS.
I saw a lot of immigrants when i was staying at the Fairmont Pacific Rim.. sad
@@greenerjrg What help is going to make it so that these people can afford $2000 plus dollar rent per month?
It’s by design
I am a ex- homeless person . And my is the country stopped building affordable housing. And one more thing is the federal government is bring to many refugees and others to our country when we dont have enough housing for the people who lives here already .
A sliver of what's going man you just said 8 FUCKIN years, I live in Vancouver I've been down in the dtes
For 15 years Iam now 3years clean and sober, and the way I got out of homeless was to get clean and sober
Major citys need housing, detox and treatment centres
Not every homeless person is a druggy... How are you affording the rent and high living costs? It had to be more than just getting sober...
Big respect for keeping the dog.
If hungry enough you can always eat it
This is a shame to Canada to BC and Kelowna. I don't have the answers to fix this but I watched this camp go for from 0-1000 over the last few years. What we are doing has failed, time for something new.
Are you gonna pay for this something new?
They should be happy that PP wants change for them.
isnt that what all the politicians say ? and then once they get the votes, the homeless get pushed to the backburner until the next election rolls around.
It's not an affordable housing or labor crunch. The entire problem is very simply tied to not enough income. People are not getting paid enough. It's not a food problem, or housing problem it's an income problem. No one takes those low paying jobs that wont even pay the rent, that's why you have a "labor crunch". This is what happens when most employment is reduced to a stagnant minimum wage
You're right. I'm sure it has nothing to do with 400,000 people moving in every year. No, that could have nothing to do with it.
Let me guess you voted for Christy Clark? Raising minimum wage hurts businesses and raises the prices of everything. The only party that benefits is the government through more income taxes charged... In fact if the wage increase bumps you into the next tax bracket, your take home pay will be less...
@@darrentylor5473
Especially smaller businesses. while incentivizing automation for the bigger ones.
Canada's high household debt says otherwise.
@@rosssmith8481 400 thousand people that kept/drove the wages down, Are you really that dense?
Come to Canada as a refugee and get free housing, free bus passes, free food, free education, free, free, free, and Canada gives away billions of $ to other countries but we can't help our own people. We can't even help out our indigenous peoples who live in poverty on reservations.
You do realize the indigenous get paid handsomely right and they are in control of their own land so if they wanted it to be better it’s up to them?
Yes, charity begins at home.
It's offensive.
Indigenous get enough and choose their outcome.
And Pierre will cut any program that exists to help Canadians, he's already tried by delaying the budget.
this is heartbreaking because shelter is a basic need
Basic need that people should provide for themselves. Not have the govt give them shelter.
For me.. my car is a basic need. But I didn't wait around for someone to buy it for me.
Hard to believe that this is Kelowna, very sad.
It's not that hard to believe. Kelowna is in the Lower Mainland.
No it's not ,its in the Okanagan Valley. The lower mainland is the Fraser Valley@@shauncameron8390
The first time they tried to set up a designated homeless area, the city put them at the base of Knox mountain , near the lake-shore. Where it was super windy and cold most of the time. And the homeless weren't even allowed to use tents. They had to change the spot when the homeless people stopped coming voluntarily
Some see a homeless encampment others see another Trudeau/WEF success
Laid off during the pandemic. Hard knocks over the years yet Pierre is the problem. Love the CBC and the poor folk that support.
I think another 100,000 people will solve it.
How is everyone enjoying carbon tax?
The worst are the drug addicted street people who take what is not theirs, confront the older generation for money or their personal belongings and leave a disgusting mess wherever they go.
They have no respect for others or other peoples properties and care less what destruction they create.
AND YOU WANT TO HELP THEM ???
Living in 3 bedroom appartment in Pakistan posh area for just 140 CAD. Thank God!
Castro jr's fault canada is in such a mess and the NDP
If it's too expensive where you are then you need to move were there are more jobs and more affordable housing..
Why do the taxpayers owe you all housing?
What does he mean "we have a labor crunch"? I thought there was a labor shortage?
Um, that is another term for it.
Depends on the sector. Tech is an employer's market thanks to all the layoffs (over-hiring during pandemic now needs correction).
@@robertchanrussell2010 But the term is the same in all sectors.
@@TheMcgojoh My point remains the same.....there is an abundance of job opportunities. So, for him to cite that as a contributing factor to the homeless situation does not make sense.
The unemployment rate in Canada is 5% right now. It’s 4.5% in BC at the moment. This has been the lowest since the 70s. Look it up. Healthcare could obviously use much more staff. Ever tried to call a handyman or a plumber or any kind of service? Here in Victoria, BC it’s always a very long wait no matter where you go because there’s never enough employees. Companies have had to close because they couldn’t get enough staff to run their businesses. There’s no shortage of jobs. There’s a shortage a employees. And the unemployment numbers are usually based on seasonal employment where people work in places like the tourism sector for Spring, summer and fall then go on employment insurance for the winter. Teachers and school staff also go on unemployment insurance for summers. There’s winter seasonal jobs on mountains. Spring to Fall yard workers, etc. So actually much less unemployment than the low numbers already say.
"Residents" Way to normalize antisocial behavior CBC.
Disgusting. It's ruining kelownas downtown area and for someone that grew up there they make it unsafe and disgusting too go downtown anymore. They use kelowna because of the warm weather.
Same with Victoria and Nanaimo, it’s warm there and there are more resources like food kitchens etc. that keep the homeless coming back
Every summer many young fruit pickers go to the Okanagan. They are generally backpackers who don't have a lot of money for accomodation, so..
And are generally from out of province.
Yes. Accommodation is your tent in tent city. Not bad. Probably free. Perfect weather.
BC is to expensive for everyone
Except foreign investors and students from well-to-do foreign families.
So are Mercedes and BMW and Toyota. Buy low climb high.
It seems to be like that everywhere in North America.
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855
No. And not even close. The Prairies, Bible Belt and Midwest don't have affordability issues.
These are human beings. Fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. We need to find solutions. Not all people are bad people
Some just need a hand to help get them on there feet. Help the ones who need it most.
I live a block away from here….it’s grown x10 since the fall….yes, it’s as bad as it looks for everybody…including the family neighbourhood on the opposite side of the camera…sirens all the time…check out the stolen bike/bike parts shop on ur next visit CBC.
Excuses by governments! 7 years into an opioid crises, getting worse every year! The management of this crisis is a catastrophic failure. All the money and free drugs spent for what? To make the situation worse every year. Only someone working for a government can possibly rate that as a job well done. Business is desperately looking for people to work and here we have people wanting free housing and drugs and healthcare .
Fentanyl is killing the "unhoused" by the thousands.
What can be done to get more of it available to them?
If they aren't doing drugs or drinking heavy then they deserve housing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Someone just commented on my post about I’m a decade late blah blah…. There are a lot of $89,000 home available in Canada. Canada is more then Vancouver and Toronto. I’m talking Coast to coast. Tons of cheap homes under $100,000.
Look on Kijiji
Look on mls
There are tons of rvs available for 40k or less and tons of land in Canada
80% of Canada is literally not even used.
Everyone is just crowded in the southern areas of the provinces pretty much. Except bc and alberta but even those places have a lot more area to be developed.
I travelled the entire country. There is tons more land and resources available
There are a lot of cheap homes available for sale. Yes most need work. People are not afraid to do renovations.
People are sick and tired of working low paying jobs especially in the trades grinding to the bone for $900 a week if your lucky after the gov takes 30% off your pay.
Here is the problem in Canada. I’ll give 3 examples
Everyday residential Customers want a job done let’s say a siding job. The business owner will quote $22,000 for a job let’s say.
The payroll on the job will be $2200
Business owner takes $5000 while the workers got $645 for the week.
Repeat the cycle. End of the year owner buys a new RV and goes on a luxury vacation and the worker buys a sandwich.
Scenario 2. Smarter business owner. Does commercial work / insurance jobs, industrial jobs
Sends quote for $494,500 for a construction job. Brags to friends, pays their hardest working Forman $4000 for the month and a couple helpers $2600
Repeats the cycle. Buys better rv and cottage, boat and 4 wheeler, new truck etc. $7000 trampoline for kids etc. wife wants a Escalade blah blah
Scenario 3 is the ridiculous unthought of things for example
Selling oil refinery parts to oil rigs companies as a middle man.
Hire 1 guy to work a computer as a middle man. Upselling other manufacturers parts and selling to the oil rigs. Business owner makes 10 million a year and pays his 1 fulltime staff member $55,000 for the year….
Greed and selfishness is the point.
I have not met 1 employer who actually cared and rewarded the hard work you do for them.
Most 99% are thinking about themselves and you will be replaced in 1 second if you slip up.
Why are so many North Americans living in tents? To a European its baffling.
There's a lack of housing and the governments both local and federal have fumbled the ball for decades snowballing the problem. Wages are too low and immigration far too high. There are people with jobs who can't afford the rents, if they can find a place to rent and buying for them is an impossibility.
I should also add that the social nets aren't big enough. What good is the government's help when the government won't do more than help you pay half the rent and you can't come up with the other half
Its a choice. Some people enjoy the outdoors.
Why do you believe Europeans rather choose to live in houses?
@@chronometer9931
Because there are only so may "rich people" you can tax to support it.
Is that free camping? I am interested in moving west coast. Very clean. Good city services like garbage removal. Toilets. This is tent city very different from USA
You will get none of that except for free camping, but the police will harass you and randoms will harass you. City officials will force you to take your tent down every night and you're subject to the ever-growing levels of crime...
Keep supporting Liberals and NDP
Exactly, this is what you get with them in power...
Living in these desirable locations is not a right. Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are all much more affordable. People need to take accountability by being realistic and start acting their wage. I work almost 70 hours a week and I'm not interested in my taxes being given to those who feel entitled to a free ride. Some people obviously need and deserve support but too many people are sitting around getting high and not contributing whatsoever. I don't doubt that some of these people have good intentions but come on, Kelowna, like other places on the west coast, are aspirational places to live.
Do you honestly think bc doesn't have the space for people? When Canada has no space left in the country will you then argue that they have no right to be a part of our country? No one said anything about taking your damn tax money, We just want a government that actually works. Excuses like the ones you're trying to make are growing too thin... Why should only the rich be allowed to live in British Columbia? Why do you assume they don't work, have you seen the price of rents lately? Are you completely ignorant about the lack of housing being built into the communities? What's your excuse?
Also those areas aren't really more affordable anymore, it's too expensive everywhere let's get real!
@@chronometer9931 just a quick search and I'm seeing rooms for under $800 and whole apartments for $1300. Even on min wage those are affordable solo.
@@chronometer9931
Thanks in large part to government meddling.
Living in British Columbia is still a privilege. Whether or not the rich should be allowed to live there is irrelevant.
@@shauncameron8390 Who says living in BC is a privilege? Is living in the country a privilege? Where do you draw the line? The reality is that there is not enough construction and thus not enough supply to meet demand so prices keep rising. The situation is entirely artificial...
So they interview the most coherent couple, why not interview the addicts living there, the real problem.
Although they were probably the most coherent, they are most likely addicts of some kind, you don't live down there if your not. CBC avoiding the real issues - plenty of drugs and lack of proper rehabilitation services.
These ARE addicts 💯
No need for this at all period! There are many options happening g to build small villages out of small dwellings to give these people a door and a roof over their heads. I built one in Waterloo Ontario. Just google Erbs road shelter Waterloo. People have moved in there from tents. After a few months they have seen that they can actually get people into housing. Hotels rooms is the worst idea, all that does is isolate people. Encampments happened because people need each other so just give me a break. If you’re going to bash an encampment, it should be called community. Shame on all in anyone that talks down on people in encampments. Before you do that take a walk into one and talk to the people there. Then you will know that there is nothing harmful about them!!!!!!
CBC needs to stop being a JT apologist
My poor hometown. At least Debbie and Garth keep there area tidy. Not like Edmonton.
NEW WORLD RECORD OF CANADA ------------25 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ONE BASEMENT IN BRAMPTON: SERIOUS CONCERN - MAYOR BROWN. Justin T NEED TO RESIGN
YUP….All the homeless come to the west or better weather and all the free handouts. What’s laughable is their situation. Knock off the opioid cruise too. This guy should give up some of his money and let some stay on his property.
Honestly, we have a lot of people who don't want to work, never saved, family won't help
How are you supposed to save anything when you dont even make enough to cover the cost of rent , heat , hydro , car costs (if you have one) gas , insurance and basic food needs ?
@@shari9721 And how are you supposed to save if you insist on living it up?
@@shari9721 Start low climb high like the rest of us.
Should be called Trudeauvilles or Trudeaucities
Affordability index says Barrie, Ontario is your best bet
Trudolf's Chinada. 🇨🇳
So many unused containers in Vancouver. These containers could be used for affordable housing for the homeless. These containers are structural skeletons for housing developments.
The problem is not that we don't have enough resources so it's not relevant that the containers could be used to house homeless as it's unnecessary in the first place
You paying for the land and conversion costs?
Today's society does not allow for much compassion. Words are not compassion. Money is not compassion.
Option 1
There could be a row a 4m x 4m cabins along that bike path. Done as a concerned community the cost would be maybe $5,000 for each. A modern barn raising so to speak. Even less with donated materials and time. Actually teach those there how to be responsible and deal with them as a equal instead of " now listen, here's what WE are going to do for the homeless "
Option 2
Involve the local, provincial, federal governments, local businesses. Set up societies to disperse funding, hire union trades to design and build them.
Now the price is $50,000 or more a unit.
Option 1 is ruled out. While there are people capable of providing the services needed, society today makes it difficult to do
Funding, liabilities, insurance, contracts, taxes, permits, studies, research, committee meetings and more guarantee needing so much money, no politician, business or society will spear head a solution. Their conscience mind knows there is a solution but the unconscious mind says,
" let's keep talking about it without actually doing anything. We keep our jobs and positions and it makes it look like we're doing something. "
Option 2. Increase immigration so high that finding a doctor would be impossible.
@@rosssmith8481
Without immigration who would staff the hospitals?
Society demands a less expensive employee. Where else would you find an employee that will take the bare minimum of employment conditions legally allowed in Canada and be better off than where they immigrated from and happy having job.
@MrPlusses
Canada has hired 10,000 doctors and 30,000 nurses since 2015.
Yet we still have a shortage.
It's just numbers. Where they came from is not the point or my concern.
@@rosssmith8481
And by staff I don't mean doctors and nurses. Take any hospital and look who's doing the actual work behind the scenes. Cleaning, laundry and services are all people who immigrated. No born in Canada Canadian wants these jobs. Well paying with benefits but no one applies. Now hospitals won't hire them even if they would because of cultural and language differences.
For every doctor hired I would imagine 2, 3 or maybe 6 support staff need to be hired.
These are our citizens, the problem has never been addressed with a long term plan. Now the numbers will grow so quickly its going to be like a runaway freight train and all Canadians are going to feel it. You need to start taking care of your own@!!
Then Trudeau is to blame it was never like this before and to many people came in to canada
Hey, I think that was my bike!
They should have local lotteries (Canada is into lotteries) and the lottery would be to help the homeless in your community. Canada has lotteries for Children's hospitals. How about for the homeless?
Families should help families. That is the lottery! We are a throw away society.
@@maryrankin9869 Some people don't know how to help. A lottery gives them a chance to contribute. Don't expect a perfect society. Work around it.
Holy Cow, a CBC video I can actually "talk back to"! In our all-too-forsaken Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms the first & most important freedom is described as the "right to security of person". My personal interpretation of that is if we indigent (impoverished in our system with such socio-economic disparity) cannot stay together in parks, on softer ground, with a modicum of privacy from trees & bushes, slightly removed from traffic, then we're alone on the hard, cold unforgiving cement down some dark alley or under a bridge where we're too vulnerable to predators. Besides, what better way to stigmatize this anti-social ill until actual social housing is built?
Hmm, just today I heard on CBC radio our BC provincial gov't is building housing for people with around $100,000- per annum income. Is that an insult to the poor or an assault upon? Then aren't our political leaders supposed to represent all Canadians & not only those who voted for them. Geez, even that would be nice, given how industries & corporations are represented before any voter. Really, given how vastly many more & an increasing number of Canadians are relatively poor than super rich, then the vast bulk of representation would swing our way. Please consider doing so for re-election. Otherwise you're just a closet Conservative in liberal garb.
For god sake it's 200 homeless people, not 2000... Sounds as if the city doesn't want to spend money on these folks or fear you'll attract more if you try to house them all...
No there are thousands in BC. The rest stops along the highway from Chilliwack to Vancouver are people living in campers and RVs who go to work every day. The only people you won't find homeless in Canada are refugees and new immigrants.
@@bradcanning875 Yes there are thousands in Metro Vancouver alone, just referring to the figures suggested by the interviewed safety manager.
Or equally share all the money and become like Venezuela.
Done helping these people, just don't do drugs and life might be a better. Common sense
@@lynns3868
Due to high demand and government-imposed low supply.
What’s causing this?
Spend more time solving this first world affordability crisis. I don't know what " 3rd world" he's talking about. My home country is classified as "3rd world," and we don't have people living like this.
I've only seen this in Canada and parts of the US. So it clearly isn't a 3rd world thing. Leave the so-called 3rd world alone. Not only are you spreading stereotypes, but you're dehumanizing the people of Kelowna. Had Mr. Poilievre taken the time to go and speak with these individuals without the fanfare and gave a solid plan on how his government will get them off the street and prevent others from ending up there. I would have been more receptive. Lord knows the current government has mismanaged this country. I'm the average voter that you need to convince... My vote is going towards solid policies that help everyday Canadians. Forget the liberal and conservative bull. Show me you are a man that gets things done. I didn't see that with this one. Just the usual politician lip service.
Some of these look like JUNKIES maybe start with quite using drugs and stay sober. The stigmas will disappear when you look healthy and sound normal.
@@greenerjrg your terrible english grammar and lack of understanding the language shows!
CBC " lets start right off with blaming Pierre Poilievre" Not the clown and the clown circus In power. Pathetic and sick.
Welcome to Canada the #1 country in the world 🙏👎🏻🇨🇦 where most people can't afford everything 👎🏻🙏
Kelona can do better they can do a way better than that shame on Kelona you get those 200 people over there and you find them places to live
IM SORRY THAT MY POVERTY MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE
What's your solution PP?
To get elected, and spend the next 8 years as PM blaming the lack of progress on the previous government. It never ceases to amaze me that people believe one man will fix everything...but they do. Just because PP looks like Clark Kent doesn't mean he is Super Man.
He has given it countless times. He has talked about the drug problem and solutions to fix it and cutting taxes and carbon tax to increase affordability that ends up affecting prices of everything such as transportation shipping costs food and even housing and rent. A simple tax can significantly reduce prices and he just spoke about what he’ll do about the drug problem which most homeless have especially here.
@@UnsettlingDwarf Yeah....he says he's going to sue big Pharma and use that money to fix the drug problem. And you seriously think that is going to happen?
Detox,Treatment and Recovery. Build modern day facilities so people can stay for minimal one year to get clean and sober and some education.
More immigrants will help build homes for everyone. Free drugs are good too.
Why are you still wasting money on pet(s) when you can't even secure a place for yourself?
A lot of people get pets when they are in a secure situation, we don't know the future. It becomes irresponsible at some point to give them up. So the answer to your question is that these people are more responsible than you are...
Build tiny houses. Like Elon of Tesla. 40k. Affrdable
detox and rehab first, otherwise they will destroy the tiny houses
@@wishteria234 Only for the ones that are addicts. Why would non addicts need to detox?
The government does not allow them to be built to put it simply
Awe, if they don't like it too bad! They should be thankful a front end loader doesn't come along and scoop that trash away!
It happens a lot more often than you realize apparently
its just GREED LAND LORDS
TrudeauVille
streets lives and trailers are the futur for born canadians..!!!...while new arrival immigrants get free hotels..!!!!!!!
This is what you get when you decriminalize all drugs... Drug addicts! Who would have thought 🙄
Happy to say I have NEVER been to Vancouver !
My brother had to move back to Montreal, because he couldn't afford to live there without roommates.
Homeless or drug addicted and /or mentally ill.
Or abused and traumatized on top of it all and for long after, raped possibly more than once, human trafficked, violated short or long term, traumatized for a lifetime, lost a job and had their home repossessed, lost a child or spouse, was injured and disabled on the job or in an accident, etc. Get educated so you can stop stigmatizing and judging anyone who’s homeless, or turned to drugs to cope a horrific life or event, or has a mental health problem thanks to being bullied by someone like you. You do realize having no compassion or empathy is a big sign of a mental health disorder.?. Mental health is just as important and easier to injure as physical health and they both effect each other. Never expect someone to react to life like you think you would. Until you’ve been in that person’s exact body, brain and lived their exact life, then you can’t judge a soul. Just ask one homeless person what they’ve been through, I dare you. Learn some common sense.
Stop the stigmatism! It’s childish and 100% ignorant and cowardly to judge anyone you know absolutely nothing about. People like you often know nothing real about the person closest to you and that’s sad and pathetic. Narcissism at its finest.
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build affordable housing force cities to build high density housing moving forward
That's just not feasible in the face of high land values and building costs.
Force cities? Are you forcing the homeless to move to your designated housing too?
@@bradcanning875 no increase in housing will make housing cheaper for everybody which would stabilize the market n prevent more ppl from being homeless we must force cities bc current zoning won't allow it n cities have no desire to change so a higher power like country or province MUST FORCE them
@@NoProjectName the city could donate land to a developer to help cut costs or they could only designate a certain number as affordable n the rest market rate it can be done I know developers wanna make money thats why increasing density is a MUST moving forward
@@trapmuzik6708
Housing will never be affordable as cities have only so much space to go around and people moving in en masse are willing and/or able to pay higher prices for housing including the supposedly affordable ones.
Ya CBC its Trudeau policy