Dear Editor
If homeless shelters are provincial or federal responsibilities, then tell me why New Westminster, Vancouver, North Vancouver, Surrey, Coquitlam and Richmond have shelters and Burnaby is without?
The closest we have to a shelter is Central Park. The city has the money to hire two workers and a truck to remove the homeless from the park and to clean up the park daily. This money could be better spent by providing a shelter instead.
Corrigan has stated in the past that temporary shelters are not a solution.
False. Many of these shelters, along with providing temporary housing, provide counselling, social workers and a long-term solution – to help the homeless find permanent housing, thus helping to get them off the streets.
How, Burnaby council, can you be so heartless and cruel? You have no empathy for these poor broken souls. Just time for the vulture developers in Burnaby and your vision of downtown Metrotown.
Donna Polos, Burnaby
