Letters to the editor: Modular housing is a dead end, not a solution

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Letters to the editor: Modular housing is a dead end, not a solution
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Modular housing was a panic response to a problem — housing the homeless and those at risk of homelessness — for which panic is never an effective long\u002Dterm response.

Another example is the recent addition of single-storey camp trailer housing to the city site at Sixth and Cambie. This is a six-acre site that could accommodate several hundred housing units, including more permanent social and supportive housing than the site accommodates now. It has been vacant for decades and should have been redeveloped long ago.

Cameron Gray, Vancouver, once responsible for affordable housing policy and projects for the City of VancouverEvery summer, there are people who repeatedly flout the watering restrictions that are put in place for all of our sakes, simply because they can afford to shrug off the $250 fine.

If someone can afford the fines and chooses to keeping watering their lawn, great. They will be funding essential community programs for the privilege.If we buy a lottery ticket and have a one-in-a-million chance of winning a big prize, we will likely agree that the odds are low. This might make us think that one in a million is a small number. On the other hand, in a province with about 5.

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