The paper notes that the vast majority of bid cities in the past two decades "including Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Amsterdam, Sydney, Beijing, Toronto, Athens, Turin, New York, and Vancouver" all shared a common problem: a housing and homelessness crisis. Many of them, including Vancouver, listed housing as part of their Olympic-legacy promises. (exerpt from news article that speaks of this paper: http://www.straight.com/olympic-cities-punish-poor)
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