Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

[ac3r]

NGL I'll feel bad for the homeless woman - Anita - who lives here. She has been living in the little sheltered area on the front left of the building, next to the deck where the old restaurant was. She's a nice lady, calm, keeps to herself, not addicted to fentanyl and animal tranq (shocking, right?) and just reads a bible all day. People have always been kind to her since she's fairly introverted. I used to bring her food and shovel the snow out of that area when I was able to and when the hospital ran the Covid testing centre there, they would do that as well.

Police, city and regional employees always leave her alone. But I wonder where she'll end up having to go once they redevelop this property. Sadly, we all know they won't do anything for her, they'll just kick her down the street a bit so they can redevelop it for the wealthy classes. A lot of church groups/religious individuals assist her though...so hopefully they can do something. From what I know she doesn't want to live in a shelter or anything (I'm guessing schizophrenia, who knows?) so finding somewhere else that is vaguely "safe" and sheltered will be challenging.

I mean it would be really awesome of the Region of Waterloo and City of Kitchener could use this property to help people like this. You could fit a couple towers with hundreds of new affordable and transitional homes, social services on this site and even have room left over to expand the park! But the homeless and mentally ill don't contribute anything to the tax coffers and revenues of private companies, so they aren't going to give a shit. It'll probably become condos or get torn down and fenced up while it sits dormant for a decade, just like the transit hub property...heh.