Richmond News
A crowd of a few hundred people gathered in the Aberdeen neighbourhood on Saturday to voice their opposition to a proposed supportive building that’s being characterized as a “drug den.”
Posters circulating on social media, with messaging in both English and Chinese, have used images of people using drugs, insinuating what a proposed 90-unit BC Housing building will bring to the neighbourhood. …
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie told the News there could be some community impacts from the new building, but the impacts could be worse if they don’t have housing.
“Keep in mind, alternatively for these folks… is literally the street,” he said.
People who are homeless or at risk of homelessness have the best chance to “get back to a better situation” if they have adequate housing and a neighbourhood, he said. …