Canada

The homeless “problem” is a direct outgrowth of the housing crisis.

The housing crisis is a direct outgrowth of housing “investors” jacking up prices and rents for 25+ consecutive years without a clear market crash.

The housing crisis can only be resolved with a return to affordability.

A return to affordability would see a housing crash of about 68% Canada-wide, with some markets (Vancouver, Kelowna, etc.) seeing valuation drops of 85% or more.

Remember: the one-third rule states that median housing payments (rent or mortgage) should not be more than one-third of median monthly income, but it also states that median home values should not be more than 3× median annual income.

The second half of that rule indicates that current home values in Kelowna alone - where median home values are just shy of $1M but median incomes as of the 2021 Statistics Canada poll are $35K - means that housing here is 28× that of annual income, or 9× more expensive than it should be.

So for a city like Kelowna to return to a sane and healthy housing market, values would have to crash by a MINIMUM of 89%.

This is what parasitical “investors” - mostly Greatest Generation and Boomers, but as of late no small number of GenX’ers - have done to the housing market.

This is why we are seeing a homeless crisis.

Judging from the way many of my neighbors reacted to a homeless camp moving into a local park, I think there a lot of ~~people~~ homeowners who would literally jump at the first opportunity to "disappear" unhoused people

Protip for him: if you build enough homes, you won't have to build encampments

He said his government presented a list of about 40 alternative sites to the municipality, but he didn't give details to reporters.

Probably because he knew reporters would vet every one of those sites and find numerous issues with many of them.