NB town declares emergency over homelessness: “People are going to die” 

Always been the case, but it doesn't have to be either or, it can be both.

They care more about israel

@@Nagle1234And Ukraine !

@@Diggyoz Demand side economics vs supply side economics. Embedded growth obligations. Asset class vs wage class. Dig in. Interesting stuff.

They give everything to U// kraine & are/ Des//Roy/ing. Us

They're concerned more if men can turn Into ladies

@@spinningstuff74 Yeah, and how concerned are you? What have YOU personally done to help a homeless person?

@@-WhizzBang-, Pay taxes, how about you what have you done?

Most of the so called Homeless are on welfare. they spend money on booze and drugs not rent. Make your choices live with the result.

@hin3423 I would bet he did 10 times more then you.

Typical NB government with its head in the sand while making insane concessions for a family that basically runs the province.

liberal=ndp coaltion wants to bring another 500,000 (some say the number is higher) immigrants, annually. They have no plan for citizens when homelessness and hunger just keeps going up. The pm has created more debt than all other PM's in Canadian history- COMBINED. Sign the petition to force jt out.

People always die in winter. Always... People die for smoking drinking eating fast food... Where's the emergency for that

People dying in the snow isn't an emergency unless of course you make taking care of human failure as the most important issue that humanity faces.

Boggles the mind. If that isn’t an emergency, what is?

it starts with caring for 'yourself' cupcake, consistently making bad 'choices', and wanting someone else to resolve that is 'not' the responsibility of taxpayers...

As I'm sure telling them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work for free does.

Tell them we have an AAA Rating.

@Rocksteady246 cons expect employees to work for free.

@@bigmike6461 8 years of Trudeau, there's record breaking homelessness and no one can afford rent. Libs: Cons are bad m'kay!

Perhaps if they just cancelled Disney+ ?

It has nothing to do with rents. There are no empty homes. We keep importing people we can't house.

Landlords are evicting Canadians for migrants.

Got money for wars but cannot feed the poor. Think about all the billion Canada and American have sent to other countries

It's legalized destructive greed!

People in Power right now aren't. working for us. They are doing this on purpose.@@shanefistell8890

What a system where big corporations and monopolistic outfits actually get rewarded for failures indirectly by the tax payers. Same old same old, socialize the losses and privatize the gains and reward executives enormously on both occurrences. Freeloaders never admit they are freeloaders even when they know they need corporate socialism to be functional. K.C Irving could have only dreamed of how easy his kids and grandkids have it in this era of corporate welfare and would highly likely call them spongers; not that he wasn't a sponger to an extent ; )

Yeah, and how about if people with spare rooms in their homes offered shelter to homeless people! Imagine that!

@@-WhizzBang- That doesn't get at the root of the problem.

Typical NB; the only company province in Canada.

@Rocksteady246 It is, as it is dangerous situation for many homeless in the winter months requiring immediate action.

@Rocksteady246 Yes it is.

So what have YOU done to help a homeless person then? Provide a warm meal? Maybe shelter for a night in that spare room in your house? Oh wait, you are just here to complain about it, actually DOING SOMETHING is someone ELSE'S responsibility...got it!!!!

@@-WhizzBang- sorry I work for a living and that's why I pay taxes to a government. You're right, under that logic why don't I just do everything. I'll move my family into the garage and start housing immigrants, work overtime to pay for them, why elect a government at all right? This is why we vote and elect government officials. It's ok though, you got to virtue signal and feel good about yourself pretending like you made a difference.

@Rocksteady246 are you Yoda? Did you have an argument?

@Rocksteady246 I know it's not, I said that in my very first comment. Let me help you out here. Local. Keyword local state of emergencies can be used to get resources and funds. I feel like people dying in the street from cold would be a good use but let me guess; waste of resources and infringes on muh rights, right?

@@UnsaughtDroog Dont bother talking to him. Rocksteady246 is a well known troll who isn't even Canadian

Migrants are the reason.

By design , greedy brainwashed politicians

If they only worked.

If you're on earth you're home...these people need shelter.

We all will have nothing & be happy! Soon we will be // fighting over/ crumbs

@@daisyinthesun not very optimistic

I completely agree. These poor people!

Can you blame her?@@thomasross6974

The provinces share the majority of the blame for our current housing crisis, and they have seen Conservative,Liberal, and to a lesser extent NDP governments at helm for many years. I do agree though that the Liberals surebhavebdropped the ball on immigration which is putting an undue strain on thebhousing/rental markets. I'm not a fan of the Trudeau government at all, but it's not all simply their fault. And PP refuses to comment on whatbhebwould do about immigration because he knows we also need the workers and investment that immigration brings. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

@@SillySongs4Everyone2001yeah not the provinces. My pizza was delivered cold, I blame Trudeau

​@peter12246 yea most likely the delivery man had to walk it to your house. He probably owned a nice new EV that was repossessed after missing payments. His family still needed to eat and heat the house.

@@SillySongs4Everyone2001 You give him too much credit. Housing crisis has been in the making for decades. the liberals to a great extent are only putting the final nail in the coffin. There are conservatives, then there are conservatives in power. The conservative element in both parties is what “burned” Canada in regard to the housing crisis and the burden we see on the middle class today. This was inevitable considering it was economic conservatives in power here and south of the border like that of Neo liberals, Reaganites, and Mulroney's ilk that supported policies over the decades that made investing in real estate more enticing than that of more important things for the betterment of the nation, its competition, and its economy. They did this with programs and policies that created more favourable tax treatment for capital gains and went to great lengths incentivizing investment more and more over the decades in hundreds of ways to the point of giving those gains a lower rate than personal income. No wonder folk find it necessary or irresistible to use houses and condos as an investment vehicle; they have to make up for devalued earnings and the stagnate wages of the past cause by the policies that stemmed from supply side economics..

@jumbome7420 Could be that they were not bringing in record numbers of immigrants. Plus, having an open border.

Yes there was, and a homeless crisis.

Yup

It is workers too, wages cannot keep up to rent, bills and food costs. It is not just families, but single individual workers.

@Rocksteady246 Not true, we are able to put tents up for others around the world. Covid they helped. Trudeau can issue a national emergency within a week to help cities combat homeless. Remember they created it.

To some homelessness is a personal choice

Cons will rage over spending the money. Plus the feds don't have authority to do so.

Government employees should stopping taking salary because there’s homelessness??? What are you even trying to say

@@TalwinderDhillonTravels Trying to say, what's obvious,. If you could see..

So what have YOU done to help a homeless person them? Provide a warm meal? Maybe shelter for a night in that spare room in your house? Oh wait, you are just here to complain about it, actually DOING SOMETHING is someone ELSE'S responsibility...got it!!!!

So what have YOU done to help a homeless person them? Provide a warm meal? Maybe shelter for a night in that spare room in your house? Oh wait, you are just here to complain about it, actually DOING SOMETHING is someone ELSE'S responsibility...got it!!!!@@TalwinderDhillonTravels

@@robert.9028 Oh really??? So what have YOU done to help a homeless person them? Provide a warm meal? Maybe shelter for a night in that spare room in your house? Oh wait, you are just here to complain about it, actually DOING SOMETHING is someone ELSE'S responsibility...got it!!!!

Deport them.

Your right! Get rid of family life/ Get rid of G.o.d/. Make us / hate/// yep!! We will fall!!

@@daisyinthesun Karl Marx would have been proud.

So original. Most productive. How many more cliches in your quiver?

@Rocksteady246 Tell me-what's YOUR literacy level, Jr psychologist? Where does "feelings" enter into cliche-land? Are you a fake, sock puppet account OR genuine 'white knight?' Thanks for dropping by. You have made every-thing/one better. Rainbow sunshine & puppies riding unicorns for you, my love.

@Rocksteady246 Now THIS is a comment: @aburden8580 1 hour ago 1986 UN declares Canada best in the world. G7 country with food 'banks' & permanent homeless. Here's an "Eskimo" tent. Sorry, I mean Inuit. We will also change the colour from red-no offence. Eh. Whaddya thunk-a dat, pebble guy/gal? (So good of you to include both genders).

They only want#1 & the people are just cattle to do the dirty work! Their ready! We are not invited to 5he next step!

@Rocksteady246 How lonely are you? Don't you have something better to do? Clearly, you are intelligent, witty & soooo much better than me. Quote Socrates, Shakespeare or ANY Canuck socially relevant policy.

...it rained today because of trudeau. He needs to stop this weather

i haven't gotten to the point where i blame stubbing my toe, or having to stop at a red light on Trudeau, but then again, i don't listen to poilievre telling me I'm a victim all day.

​@@niagarawarrior9623you are a victim of your voting habits. Sadly I'm a victim of them also.

@@carmenneumann9479 What a ridiculous comment. Seriously, you don't think that the liberal party of Canada's policies have had ANYTHING to do with the economy? Wow, just wow.🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Same in U,S,A! Joe / is decoy! Take away God,family,love of Country & you got: Zombies!!!!!

I am looking into options that would allow me to have a heater in the tent. At this point, if my roommate and I lose the place we are in, it is a real option. Rents are still getting higher by the day. I heard someone say that the new Canadian Dream is not to own a house, it's just to not be homeless. Seems about right. :(

Something a Liberal/NDP-voter would say.

Well put.

Very telling.

Worst tenants' rights in the country; things landlords get away with in NB, I could never get away with as a landlord in BC. I was shocked to see the mistreatment of tenants in NB while I moved back for a few years. Also the how much the burden was put on the tenant to resolve an unjust issue against them. Big joke was for one year they put an annual percentage cap on rents and the following year the rents soared. Landlords in NB want to charge what the market will bear in a so called “free market” yet want NB to maintain a rigged system and tax regimes that has little resemblance of competition and capitalism that favours them over the tenant.

The cause of all of this is the federal government junior

My god, are you serious? You can import ppl FAR faster than you can build homes. This is straight up policy failure, yet you blame the private sector for not keeping up w irresponsible and lobbyist driven policy… Give your head a shake.

Sad thing is Landlords in NB want to charge what the market will bear in a so called “free market” yet want NB to maintain a rigged system and tax regimes that has little resemblance of competition and capitalism that favours them over the tenant.

​@@arkcon714no, it's the provinces, theyre responsible for housing, not the feds.

Not the feds job to build houses, it's the provinces.

And you are no doubt willing to donate more money to help fund this!

No this situation happend because the most indoctrinated generation voted for it.

Preceeded**

@@MightyKingYoung Sorry so they pre-seeded the Idea in their heads that higher taxes and more government control with massive over spending was a good idea.

Us boomers are in part to blame because of our indifference to policies and practices that we knew would be detrimental to future generations. Things like real estate agents shadow flipping and developers engaging in speculation and the corruption of Spot Zoning over the years in larger cities to name a few. Also we were warned in the 90s about how the policies that stem from supply side economics would inevitable devalue the earnings of our kids and relatively stagnate wages not to mention the younger generations would be squeezed out of housing if we didn’t address and curb those polices.

Are you referring to the generation that had to work 40 plus hours a week for 40 years to achieve a roof over their heads and food on the table? The generation that couldn’t receive a government handout because sometimes they feel sad or they’re simply too lazy to work. Is that the generation you’re referring to?

Because taxes and bureaucracy are too high.

well the carbon tax contributed. We also have to add massive government overspending with nothing to show for it. Open boarder policies and bringing in record numbers of immigrants with no planning.

Allowing private corporations to buy housing for shareholders. Probably is the way to go. Recently came out there is estimated 250k homes being used for airbnb. For every precent of airbnb ownership. Rents rise 2.3% housing develops don't care to make affordable units. They want to build $500, 750k, 1mil homes in the burbs.

@@EyeSee4.8 Well this is the Liberals for ya. I lived in Halifax for 18 years it became so hard to live there I had to move to montreal. But I see what happens and well its starting to happen in the neighborhood I am now in Dorval QC. I lived in Fairview in Halifax from 1999 to 2018. When I first got there rents for 2 bedrooms was 450 a month, It was a nice small community no big high rises, all small tight buildings, Everyone knew everyone else, neighbors looked after others. Then in 2006 the first tear down of an old building happened they evicted everyone from it even though they never missed any rent. Tore it down and the first highrise went up. Fancy new building. Once it was completed all the rents in the smaller building went up as well landlords thought well the area is now little nicer I can charge more. Even though they was making enough money before. Then since that 2006 date 2007 2 more new building, 2010 3 more, 2014 two more 2016 two more. My rent in my small brick building went from 450 a month 1999 to 900 a month in 2017 no reno's done nothing new done to building. Joe Howe Drive in Fairview look on google street view. And look at dates when you look at the 2006 date you see a nice small community. Then look at street view today and it reminds me of Hurontario Street Mississauga. City officals say wow this place looks nice while the homeless sleep outside. They took the money from the developers and basicly told the citizens and the people that live there fok off.

​@@MrWolfenwhat I find hilarious about you cons. You cry that libs are overstepping their perview by interfering with provincial matters, then blame them for not interfering with provincial matters. 😂😂😂😂

@@freeisalwaysme The consequences of rent control. Mom-and-pop property owners not legally able to set the rents accordingly to cover basic operating and maintenance costs forced to sell and get out of the market while those who can afford to put with the bureaucracy come to fill the void.

Rich ,stop faciast favortism

Deport them.

So...are you willing to donate more taxes to pay for this?

@@-WhizzBang- the amount of billions the government pays is not from your tax dollars. 20% OF that billions goes to the projects painting over mold in renovations. The rest is pocketed by renovators hired to renovate the project .

Hi Yuri

They should try the igloo. Worked perfectly for thousands of years.

It will be everyone

@daisyinthesun Sadly, because of a fifty years long serially criminal government , you are correct.

In New Brunswick many were used to very low rents for years compared to the rest of the country. In the last 4 years rents have increased as high as 150 percent in NB. NB has no annual rental caps and only had one for one year plus has some of the worst tenants' rights in the country; the things landlords get away with in NB I could never get away with in BC as a landlord. And what rights the tenants have, there is too much burden on them to resolve it. Even minor things like your rent deposit. Even though it is the law in NB for a landlord to register your deposit, with the government many don't and Service NB looks the other way. I contacted them about this and their reply was, "yes, they must register, but many do it the old school way so don't and there is no enforcement". The lack of tenants' rights in NB has made it quite attractive for those from other richer provinces that want to be slum lords. When more people came from richer provinces during COVID to take advantage of more "affordable" housing, they were more than willing to pay rents that went up so high because compared to where they came from, they were good deals. But the prices they were willing to pay put a lot of renters out of the rental market that have been in the rental market for decades. Imagine being used to a rent well below 800 a month for years then suddenly within a year or two it goes as high as 1800 a month. I was part of that problem, as I moved back there for a few years and paid what they asked for as it was a deal for me. The previous tenants were paying 1125 a month and I paid 1750. Now that unit goes for 1975 a month. An increase of 625 in a three year period; that's actually not a high rate of increase in NB, as I know there are no lack of units that have been increased by 800 to 900 a month. It is a mess all over the country. To think there are still tens of thousands of people in BC that pay rents that are anywhere from 700 a month to 1500 a month that have been in the same unit for years thanks to annual rental caps. I have a friend in Vancouver Kitslano that lives in an apt that looks like those apts that go for over 2000 a month in Moncton, but he only pays 1200 a month because he had been in his unit for over 8 years.

Both are the reasons. I have family in St. Stephen and was told that the homeless encampments are growing quickly. They didn't have these problems 8 years ago. They also have a huge problem with illegal drugs being brought across the border.

@@rps1689 Complacency.

Yes it was. It's just that not everyone's going to make it.

Thing is only about 30 percent of the homeless are addicts or drug users.

But they lack the survival skills of old.

@@patrickcowan8701 Well, to be fair, that isn't going to help in big cities. No trees, no lands, no plants or animals to forage or hunt. But I definitely think we can improve on self-sufficiency. Like incorporating food growth space on a per capita basis and limit out-sourced food.

I spent a lot of time around the homeless. It has a lot more to do w drugs than it does freedom.

many are homeless by choice

@@michellerose1190 But they can panhandle, steal, borrow or sell themselves.