Are “poor doors” the answer in Vancouver?

Given the state of Vancouver‘s housing crisis, there‘s no shortage of suggestions that would normally make people uncomfortable. Among the calls for massively rezoning the city and imposing extra taxes on the owners of multimillion-dollar homes comes the concept of the “poor door.“

Commenting on the recent Vancouver city council decision to allow two separate doors (and lobbies, designed to “different standards“) for market strata and social housing residents, a Globe and Mail editorial suggests that the poor door is dangerously similar to the segregated drinking fountains, train cars and hotels once found in America’s south.