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Hamilton councillor calls for study of ‘sanctioned’ encampments
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If we’re going to have a conversation about using municipal resources for a sanctioned encampment, let’s start with the municipal golf courses.
sure, lets spend money on allowing them to camp on a golf course, that negates it from bringing in money. Maybe you should run for council.
Selling off the golf courses would bring in a lot more revenue than operating them.
I just can’t wrap my head around why golf courses are a municipal priority while people are dying on the street. It’s not as though there aren’t privately owned courses around.
you do realize these bring in money, not to mention jobs. Fulltime/partime/student jobs. To sell them would be to a developer, which means more greenspace lost, more housing people cannot afford, as well as more congestion. Lets not think short term here. That is what politicians do as it makes them look good while in office knowing full well the burden will not take place to well after they are gone. We need people to look long term. The housing crisis is not an Hamilton, or even Ontario problem. It is happening in most Provinces. It is a National issue and should be started by the Feds. Thy could start with bringing in less immigrants/asylum seekers. Or at the very least, direct them to places that do not have a housing/job shortage. Why have the feds pledge to bring in 500,000 a year when we can't house/feed/provide jobs for thousands already here?