"What a joke we are paying $115,000 per year to keep a criminal...

"What a joke we are paying $115,000 per year to keep a criminal alive yet our elderly are left to die in homes and families live on the street."

There are countless homeless people, mainly men, who sleep out in the cold every night in our big cities. It is not a new problem. It gets an occasional write up in the media.

Governments in the past few years showered people with tax cuts; some these government revenue should have and could have been used to build more public housing.