Cities vary in attitudes to tent encampments
Across Canada, cities vary a lot in their approaches to homeless encampments, not all of them ordering evictions as happens here.
Le Devoir asked what happened to the tiny, tiny houses comic Mike Ward offered to the city two years ago, but were rejected. Seems they were accepted by Drummondville, but haven’t been used much since.
Joey 12:18 on 2024-02-19 Permalink
We were in Oakland about five years ago – given the U.S.’s meager safety net and the warm California weather, the homelessness crisis was much more pronounced then and there than it is here, even now. Our friends were explaining to us that more and more people are buying (or receiving?) backyard sheds – the kind you would buy at Home Depot to put in your lawn to store all your gardening/pool stuff – to live in.
Josh 11:25 on 2024-02-20 Permalink
You can see it in a much more pronounced way up and down the west coast on account of the weather – from LA right up to Vancouver and Victoria.