Should the very poor share neighbourhoods with the very rich?
Very poor people shouldn’t be mixed with very rich people at the Olympic village or it will affect the price of the still-unsold condos – and eventually hurt taxpayers. That’s the provocative point of view that a well-known Vancouver development consultant and onetime council candidate has been airing in interviews and blogging about in recent days. It has kicked off a debate that had been dormant for decades about whether and how the city should engineer socially mixed neighbourhoods.
