Comment 33586

By oliver Barkovic (anonymous) | Posted September 15, 2009 at 19:48:48

jason wrote:

"Oliver, I can't speak for everyone else but I don't think anyone is suggesting that certain folks 'cant live downtown'. "


That is exactly what is being said... actually that is precisely what is being said. Verbatim.

Reg agrees that he is the "working poor" and shouldn't be able to live downtown.

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"People don't flock to downtown Toronto to visit the working poor. Most people can't afford to live in downtown Toronto, or downtown Montreal or downtown Vancouver. Heck, they can't even afford to live in downtown Burlington, and that's just a suburb on steroids.


Yet here we are in this once great and still amazing city called Hamilton and I can afford to live in downtown Hamilton. Well guess what: I shouldn't be. I make squat. As Meredith Broughton wrote in a recent comment on Raise the Hammer:

Living downtown is a privilege, not something to be handed out to those who can't afford to house themselves. I fully support more affordable housing, but not in the city core."



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