Section D : Information Relating To The Need To Address Substance Abuse 3. More general information relating to specific problems communities must acknowledge and act upon in accordance when implementing reasonable solutions in an effort to reverse the growing problem of food hunger concerns in our communities, in addition to all other related areas that can and do create further food insecure environments for those vulnerable persons who are subject to exploitation for various reasons. .........1) The numbers of drug addicted youth has a direct correlation in the numbers of homeless. .........2) Homelessness among people over the last 3 years has increased by a conservative estimate of 50% Province wide. .........3) Vancouver has experienced a 350% increase in the numbers of homeless persons over the last 3 years. .........4) Most people who suffer from homelessness also suffer from drug addiction, and or other related substance abuse concerns .............in addition to food insecurity concerns. .........5) It is a Federal crime to solicit or communicate for the purpose of prostitution; and/or exploit vulnerable youth for the .............purpose of prostitution via through the introduction of drugs. .........6) Persons and youth experiencing homelessness and/or on going hunger are more vulnerable to becoming subject to the .............exploitation of street prostitution, petty crime sprees and/or other forms of exploitive techniques used by those who prey on .............vulnerable youth, and/or other persons within the community. .........7) There is a direct link between drug abuse and the formation of drug addictions when it relates to the on-going behavior of .............adults exploiting youth and other vulnerable persons for the purpose of prostitution, and/or living off of the avails of .............prostitution. .........8) Youth who experience lack of community social support systems centered around meeting their immediate emotional and basic .............physical needs as a preventative measure to prevent the spread of drug abuse and/or future addiction, are more at risk to .............become subject to the exploitative nature of unscrupulous adults who use drugs and other devices to entrap such youth and .............young adults into a lifestyle that continues the cycle of crime, illicit acts of prostitution, poverty and the spread of disease .............and/or mental illness within our communities. .........9) All persons living with or having to face with living with homelessness, drug addiction and/or other relating hunger concerns .............are at a higher risk to become subject to experience sexual abuse, whether directly relating to prostitution or through the use of .............introducing drugs such as crack cocaine or speed to such persons at an early age for the purpose of being lure into prostitution. Point of reference: Every person who, in any place, obtains or attempts to obtain, for sexual consideration, the sexual services of a person who is under the age of eighteen years is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. .............In 1984, from a public opinion survey conducted by Peat Marwick, it was estimated that roughly 90% of Canadians agreed that .............purchasing or offering to purchase sexual services from a youth should be a criminal offence.(9)   After conducting extensive .............research on prostitution, the Committee on Sexual Offences Against Children and Youth (the Badgley Committee, 1984) and the .............Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution (the Fraser Committee, 1985) both recommended that obtaining or .............attempting to obtain for consideration the sexual services of a youth should be criminalized.  The Canadian legislature acted .............upon these recommendations, and on January 1, 1988 section 212(4) came into force.