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"Dispersal gets it all over, true. But containment hasn't worked. Mayor Phhp Owen, in the VancouverSun, 1998
"Displacement is not an effect of our policy. It is our policy." New York mayor Rudy Gi& in 1997, replying to questions about the effects of his zero-tolerance policy on the city's homeless and poor residents. i
disperse vb dispersed; dispersing
- : to break up and scatter about
displace vb I : to remove fiom the usual or proper place; esp :to expel or force to flee fiom home or native land. The Merriam WebsterDictionary, 1974.
Well, the mayor has finally spoken the dreaded word 'Ispersion'. That signals a new direction in city policy toward the Downtown Eastside -- or maybe officials have finally decided to be open about their true intentions. For about 6 or 7 years, Carnegie and other groups have worked with the City on the Victory Square Plan. Then the Housing Plan came along and we worked on that too. All along the assumption was that civic staff and politicians were committed to this community. They kept telling us that they recognized that this has always been a low income community and a place where
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