As approximately 14,000 people prepare to descend on Paris’s Olympic Village for the 2024 Summer Games, the city’s less affluent residents have questions about how this event will help or hurt them. For perspective, Andie Crossan takes us to Vancouver. The Canadian city won the bid for the 2010 Olympic Games with the promise of converting the Olympic Village into affordable housing. But a financial crisis and political turmoil scuttled those plans. Vancouver is now grappling with a profound homelessness crisis, which has been turbo-charged since hosting the games 14 years ago.
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