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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people who are largely responsible for people having to go into homeless shelters in the first place reside in wards 7 and 8.  Indolence, lack of parenting, unemployed and unemployable, poor decision making. Haven't wards 7 and 8 already imposed enough costs on the rest of the city? How is rewarding failure with a nice apartment in ward 3 fair?  Fair would be having the people that created the problem "live" with the consequences. [/quote]

There are very real cultural reasons why poverty is multigenerational.  Many homeless people grew up in broken, dysfunctional homes.  They don't know what "normal" is.   Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - the things we consider essential for independence and self-sufficiency aren't even on their radar.  Many of them need serious interventions and life coaching to break the cycles and to get the kick in the ass to get their lives together.[/quote]

Yes there are cultural reasons for multi-generational poverty - pp identified some, eg, indolence, poor decision making. None of the people in Ward 3 cause the people in wards 7 and 8 to make the atrocious decisions that they do on a daily basis. Yet Ward 3, which already pays the most to clean up the mess made by the people in wards 7 and 8 now is forced to house these people too? I guess no good deed goes unpunished. [/quote]

:roll:

Oh God, the sanctimony that someone can derive just from paying taxes.[/quote]

Can't you just picture the Sah quickly banging this out from.the back of her limousine?[/quote]

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