To the Editor,
Re: Education about homeless issues needed, Letters, Feb. 5
I have to disagree with Wallace Malay.
Three years ago I too was using the 7-10 Club to my advantage. But there is one huge difference between a club that gives you food and wet housing, especially near schools.
Malay speaks of it only taking a moment for your life to change for the worst, and this is true. However, the solution is not to enable addicts to take their drugs and booze indoors.
How is that going to convince them they are better off to try and seek the help they so desperatly need? If I had been given a home to do my drugs in, what would my motivation have been to change my life? There would not have been any.
Truly homeless people don’t do drugs and cry over it, they try to seek help.
If Malay is so sure the intentions of homeless people using the wet housing is purely because of their unfortunate situations, I invite him to come clean up my rentals, which prove quite the opposite of his point.
A. Suggett
Nanaimo
