Olivia Chow has made it clear she will follow in the same footsteps as the doomed mayors of San Francisco and Seattle
I put “progressive” in quotes because, while these leaders’ stances may have once been considered so, their tendency to think backwards rather than forwards makes “regressive” a more accurate description of their politics.
Drug use and crime were allowed to proliferate. Preventing homelessness took a back seat to efforts to make unhoused people’s lives marginally better — even as they often got demonstrably worse — at greater and greater cost to taxpayers, and homeless populations exploded.Article content Olivia Chow has made it clear that she will follow in the same footsteps as the doomed mayors of San Francisco and Seattle. She, too, fails to understand that affordable housing, while important, will never be enough without housing affordability.Article content
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