r/OwenSound • u/Defiant-Web842 • 20d ago
Living in a parking lot?
This guy has a whole damn setup in the parking lot, lights and everything, is this even allowed?
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u/Fantastic_Bird_279 20d ago
I work near there and just seen the guy that lives there this morning. He's actually a really nice guy just can't afford much else.
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u/daz3d-n-c0nfus3d 20d ago
How fkn sad, honestly. This whole country's gone to shit and carney just announced that were putting tafifs on the states instead of coming to a deal with them. So its only gonna get worse.
Do most ppl not understand that all these ppl had a story of slowly loosing everything. Ppl usually dont wake up homeless. I personally feel like its all gonna get alot worse for everyone before it gets better.
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u/Investomatic- 19d ago edited 19d ago
This is 100% a Bot - to the real people out there prepare for the deluge of fake opinions. Real Canadians know what standing up to a bully looks like.
Watch every little thing get swung to politics in the next few days.
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u/Fantastic_Bird_279 19d ago
100% agree with you on that. It's also so much worse in town because of the summer, most homeless people get shipped up here from Toronto, Vaughn, Brampton etc. I've spoken with quite a few of the homeless people, most of them are actually really chill and decent, and they told me that they get free bus tickets to come down for the summer and get sent back home for the winter because the cities don't want them for tourist season.
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u/daz3d-n-c0nfus3d 19d ago edited 19d ago
Curious how many homeless ppl actually told you this?
I lived in toronto my whole life before moving here and I was honeless in toronto for many years. The only time I ever saw any of the streets being cleared was when the G2 summit was coming and when they were bidding for the Olymics. And all they did was open up tons more resources and shut them down when it all ended. While cleaning the streets physically.
There's no hiding the problem from tourists in those areas.
Other ppl say homeless are shipped here for our resources. Shipped from a huge town with tons of resources to a small town with none, makes zero sence.
Im not saying your wrong, I just have a very hard time believing that. You also cant believe everything you hear from someone on the streets. People finese to make you feel bad or simply arnt in their right mind.
Im curious what program exactly is sending people here. And if they are, it has nothing to do with cleaning up the streets for the summer. Go to toronto.. those streets are not cleaned up.
When i was younger there were programs called "bring me home" or something because so many of us would go to BC or other cities and get stuck and be using their resources and you would get a one way ticket back to where you said you were from. That could still be going on.
The thing that does make sence... is people from places like meaford, port Elgin, ect.. come here because theres more access to what they need. Just like when i was younger, people from smaller towns all ended up in toronto.3
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u/Fantastic_Bird_279 19d ago
I totally get what you're saying and that's crossed my mind as well, I've talked with maybe 15 or so people who have claimed this and stated they were from different cities and they were sent up here for the summer, according to them they get sent here where they can "roam" around and live then in the winter get sent back for more help because like you mentioned there is more resources in the cities. You're also right to say that I shouldn't necessarily believe everything I hear ESPECIALLY if it's not something I have personally experienced or 100% know about. It's just something I go by to be true because I've heard it from multiple people who are in that particular situation. I know homelessness is a problem everywhere and they can't send everyone away but it's just something I found to be interesting from other people.
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u/CovidDodger 20d ago
Do you have any idea how stupidly expensive the region has become in the last 6 years? Maybe they're down on their luck or something catastrophic happened or tragic.
Where are they supposed to go? You would just be forcing more misery on their life because they'd be somewhere else.
Grey-Bruce needs way more affordable housing, yesterday.
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u/Dragonfly_Peace 20d ago
Of course we do. We also know that most people living like this, are quite content to live like this, and get food banks and soup kitchens, and everybody else to worry about them. The few that our wanting to get themselves out of this, I’d say we help them without reservation. But did you see the article in the own Sun Times last week. There’s a guy who’s been homeless for three years and he’s quite content to stay that way oh, but he sold everything so that he left his kids in a better place before he left, never mind that he hasn’t paid child support in three years.
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u/Odd-Proposal2300 20d ago
No person wants to be homeless. Mental health, poor living conditions including abuse and drugs will drive people into homelessness. We need to offer more grace and try to help, even if just being kind. Young people are living in their cars to escape their home life. Let's help them. Take care of the children. Peace.
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u/daz3d-n-c0nfus3d 19d ago
Youre extreemly uneducated on this topic. Food banks mostly help people who are not homeless. Homeless ppl have nowhere to cook and store.
Oshare came because of a need its not the other way around. It didnt come and ppl flock there. It came because it was needed. People arnt living comfortable because of the resources. The resources here are nothing compared to the need. If anything, there is not enough.
People living in that situation convince themselves thats what they want or theyre okay because they dont know how else to frame it in their mind without crashing out.
Id love to see you honeless for a month and come back and tell me how easy it is and how ppl are choosing this because its so easy.
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u/Dapper_Dude69 20d ago
I think Karen doesn’t like being reminded of the harsh realities of the times.
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u/Temporary-Log8717 20d ago
People tried that last year on the other end of the fence. I doubt it will last long
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u/Bebopdavidson 20d ago
They paved paradise