Cities covering the cost of social services is being labeled as “bad news.”
That label is doing a lot of ideological work.
In reality, this may be the beginning of a long-overdue shift: moving the cost of running a city away from workers, and toward those who own the land.
This shift is good news, not bad news!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-municipal-downloading-quantified-9.7032840