Social Housing and the Vancouver Olympics

Anyone notice that things are lookng a lot worse in the downtown eastside lately? More people on the streets, looking damaged and desparate, living out of shopping carts: the Olympics are coming, and the poorest sector of our society is going to pay the most for them. It's like the opposite of the trickle down effect - call it the Money Vacuum, I guess, where a vast machine descends from above to suck up whatever's of value below and turn it into condos. Good article about it here...