Tent City was located at 58 West Hastings and was put together to protest the lack of affordable housing in this city. I can attest to that fact having bought one of the most affordable homes in the entire city and not being able to sustain it without renting the basement out. There were legal orders and rushes to find homes for people and all that good stuff and in the end there were a couple of hold outs who would rather live on the street than be given a place to live. Over a few days even that small number dwindled and now there are maybe three lonely tents in the middle of that vacant lot propped up on shipping skids and tarped to keep them dry, and an urban dweller's version of an SUV in the form of a shopping cart parked out front. I don't know how long it will be before the black helicopters and windowless vans swoop in to clean out the last of the squatters. A day? A week?
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