I have more sympathy for poor, even criminal "persons of colour" than I do white liberals. I do feel that society should do more to uplift the poor. But we are going about it the wrong way. Notice how the most liberal of places in the country have the highest rates of gentrification (pricing the poor out of renting a place, let alone buying) and poverty. In Ontario, tiny houses are illegal. Each residential building has to be at least 800 square feet and be "up to code" with the provincial regulations. I would like to see those regulations relaxed. Then everyone who is working poor and even on disability/welfare if they seriously can't get a job can afford to live in a tiny house. We could eradicate homelessness without the government having to spend a whole lot of money. Better to be living in a tiny house than to be homeless in Toronto. It amazes me how much money the government taxes and spends and yet where is the affordable housing?

If I was a wealthy philanthropist (unfortunately I'm not) and tiny houses weren't illegal in Ontario, I would hire tradesmen to build tiny homes for the poor and gift these homes to the poor. And then write that off on my taxes. That would be a way better use of tax payer money than the bullshit the government is doing now.

I have more sympathy for poor, even criminal "persons of colour" than I do white liberals. I do feel that society should do more to uplift the poor. But we are going about it the wrong way. Notice how the most liberal of places in the country have the highest rates of gentrification (pricing the poor out of renting a place, let alone buying) and poverty. In Ontario, tiny houses are illegal. Each residential building has to be at least 800 square feet and be "up to code" with the provincial regulations. I would like to see those regulations relaxed. Then everyone who is working poor and even on disability/welfare if they seriously can't get a job can afford to live in a tiny house. We could eradicate homelessness without the government having to spend a whole lot of money. Better to be living in a tiny house than to be homeless in Toronto. It amazes me how much money the government taxes and spends and yet where is the affordable housing?