More Discrimination Against the Homeless

First Houston takes steps to keep the homeless out of public libraries (link), and now Vancouver wants to take away their bathrooms. Link. Excerpts:

The ripe stench of human excrement is getting stronger in downtown lanes, curling the stomachs of workers who no longer want to relax by the back door for smoke breaks.

The ripe stench of human excrement is getting stronger in downtown lanes, curling the stomachs of workers who no longer want to relax by the back door for smoke breaks. . .

"There's a burgeoning entertainment district, a growing homelessness problem and people have nowhere to go [said Charles Gauthier, executive director of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association].

"I've been with the association for 15 years and it's just becoming more and more of an issue for more of our members. The stench of urine and feces in back lanes in the central business district and the Downtown Eastside, where it's probably a lot worse."

The 10-block city slum is swollen with up to 5,000 injection drug users who have less control of their bowels. Many are homeless and have nowhere to go to the toilet.

Often the drug users roam out of the neighbourhood into alleys linking downtown businesses.

And the problem is exacerbated by bourgeois selflishness:

Gauthier said his members don't want to clean up the piles excrement the homeless make on their properties . . .