Coleman Stove

While mostly a love fest of our current Housing Minister and Langleyite Rich Coleman the subtext to this article is interesting. This is especially true given the near daily announcements of new social housing units being purchased by the province and the City of Vancouver.

To me the article is implying that the model for social housing used by the province is shifting away from the standard model of mixed low income/social housing spread throughout the City, and towards larger housing projects specifically geared towards "hard to house" individuals.

This seems worrisome to me. The concentration of social housing in this way is ghettoization. It forces all the “undesirables” to live in certain areas while protecting everyone else (and property values) from unpleasantness

This seems the opposite of the solution to me. Neighborhoods should represent the makeup of society more broadly with social housing spread evenly throughout the City. Social Housing should not be dictated by market forces or specifically designed to protect property values and the sensitivities of rich people.