maybe, one day, months from now, somebody will launch a commission into what went wrong here, and try to figure out what they should have done differently.

but, i can tell you the report's findings well ahead of time: rather than plan how and where to build the appropriate housing, there was an ethereal assumption that the market would deal with it.

you won't find anybody stating those words, explicitly. no minister has stated "the market will take care of it" - because no journalist had the foresight to ask the appropriate question.

everybody, everywhere, just assumed this would be the case.

but, the homeless crisis that is now upon us - as we slowly hurtle towards the canadian winter - belies that assumption.

the market is not going to take care of this.

the government needed to plan this out.