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by carola.co.uk
re: conflicting needs of cities
the olympics will pay for social services? but who will pay for the olympics?
i'm not sure the money coming in from the olympics will be used to help the poor; and investing that same amount of initial capital into providing basic housing and services might be more useful.
in addition, given that many homeless people are not just economically disadvantaged but hit dually because their poverty overlaps with being from a disadvantaged cultural community (e.g. Aboriginal),circuses like the olympics only make the gap between the haves and havenots bigger!