ANOTHER STORY on the DTES MONEY PIT

Oldtown News
Vancouver, BC

ANOTHER STORY on the DTES MONEY PIT

Downtown Eastside costs $1 million a day
Huge price tag leads to call for audit

By David Carrigg , Vancouver ProvinceFebruary


Philip Owen stands at 65 East Hastings Street in front of a soon-to-open, nine-storey social housing complex.

The former Vancouver mayor looks west to the intersection of Carrall Street and points to a just- opened social housing project.

There’s a charity-owned art gallery a few buildings down, more social housing across the road as well as two pharmacies and a church-run drop in centre.

A similar potpourri of housing and services is replicated in the blocks around him.

For the entire story see:

http://www.theprovince.com/Health/Downtown+Eastside+costs+million/1295988/story.html