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Some Simple Homelessness Arithmetic

BC’s 2006-2007 Budget Surplus: $4.1 billion

Homeless people in Vancouver: 2,000

Homeless people in BC: 5,000

Cost of a home we could have purchased for each of BC’s homeless people with last year’s budget surplus: $820,000

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