Letter: ‘There’s not a single homeless person who wouldn’t love to have a roof over their head’

Letter: 'There's not a single homeless person who wouldn't love to have a roof over their head'

We need cheap, safe housing, full healthcare and a universal basic income in Canada, this Port Moody letter writer states. Homeless person.getty The Editor,

I hear it all the time:

"Addicts and homeless people brought it on themselves.""They don’t deserve our sympathy.""Why should we spend our tax dollars helping them when we have so many other issues to deal with."Those statements are wrong.People don’t choose to be addicts; people become addicts through suffering trauma or mental illness.There is not one person in the world out there that woke up and said, "You know what? I’m not going to bother going to […]

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