Enough with these pearl-clutching articles! The number of evictions in the DTES due to predatory RE dev& #39;t is huge: whole buildings emptied, hence uptick in homelessness. I live in Strath. I do not feel unsafe. I feel angry & sad for these people. #vanpoli https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/an-increasingly-bad-experience-vancouver-man-cites-rising-crime-as-reason-for-selling-condo-1.5140992">https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/an...

In the past month I& #39;ve forgotten to lock a side door 3x, left my keys in the front door over night once, left back gate open; walked around alone at night.. I have lost nothing & never been assaulted or harassed. The overstating of risk and fear in Strathcona has got to stop.

And the media needs to stop fuelling this manufactured & #39;law and order& #39; panic with what looks like naked delight. These people who are enduring the unsafety and extreme discomfort of homelessness are our neighbours. Media: knock it off. Strathcona: pull yourself together.

And some backup from Strathcona neighbour @ellouis - and there are many more neighbours who agree with us, but media doesn& #39;t talk to us because, well, there& #39;s no story in this non-story. Yes, we witness a lot of pain & displacement; do we feel unsafe? No. https://twitter.com/ellouis/status/1315387107318267904">https://twitter.com/ellouis/s...

PS We must acknowledge that many women who aren& #39;t NIMBYs in Strath do feel unsafe. Safety is subjective & I may be an edge case having worked abroad in dangerous places. But much of the "crime!" narrative seems disingenuous. We must carve a path between these 2 distinct things.

I said this to a friend who is a DTES service provider and they replied "One of the reasons none of this shit gets dealt with is because people aren& #39;t willing to carve that path."