-- Download Some Simple Homelessness Arithmetic as PDF --
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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Stephen Elliott-Buckley
Post-partisan eco-socialist. at Politics, Re-Spun
Stephen Elliott-Buckley is a husband, father, professor, speaker, consultant, former suburban Vancouver high school English and Social Studies teacher who changed careers because the BC Liberal Party has been working hard to ruin public education. He has various English and Political Science degrees and has been writing political, social and economic editorials since November 2002. Stephen is in Twitter, Miro and iTunes, and the email thing, and at his website, dgiVista.org.
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