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Posted: Oct. 23, 2023 8:21AMRic Young is seen at an encampment at downtown Halifax’s Grand Parade, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. He has been staying in the makeshift encampment for nearly three months.
But going by reports from those working on the front lines, homelessness is increasing across the country, she said in a recent interview, and so is the number of encampments. “I have no fixed address,” says Dove, 37, who has moved from coast to coast over the past five years before returning to Victoria from Quebec last month.Dove looks down Pandora Avenue, a major artery that leads to downtown Victoria, and expresses sadness for the people who have pitched tents along the grassy median known as Harris Green.
The 41-year-old is homeless for the first time in his life after his landlord evicted him and his roommate nearly six months ago. Osmond says the landlord told them the house needed renovations and then put the property back on the market — without making any changes and at twice the previous rent. Osmond says he is glad so many people had found a safe place to stay at the encampment. But he was dismayed to see how many others like him are without housing.— By Sarah Smellie in St. John’s, N.L.Tents have become a common sight on Bourassa Street in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil, as the shelter in a former church on the corner regularly attracts more people than it can lodge.
La Halte du Coin accepts 20 people per night to sleep on cots in the church nave. Lately, it’s been turning away between 10 and 12 people every day. Rousseau says the shelter plans to increase its capacity to 35, but ultimately only a move to a new building will improve the situation. He describes a nightly scramble outside La Halte du Coin, with some people sleeping under picnic tables and others nestling against tents to benefit from the body heat of strangers.“They make noise. There are vandals. They steal,” Pap says. “There are many things that happen that are unpleasant and block us from moving forward.”
“When the public says they hate seeing the park like this, I just want to say, trust me, we hate being in this park,” Young says. “Most of the people in this park are just people that can’t find a place.” The 47-year-old who’s originally from Newfoundland was working in a restaurant kitchen and living in an apartment in central Halifax until June when he says his landlord ended the lease in order to renovate. With rents high and vacancies scarce, he struggled to find another apartment and eventually ended up staying in a tent. He says he had to give up his job.
Bell, 41, lives in an encampment of four tents behind a homeless outreach centre in downtown Edmonton near police headquarters. He shares his tent with his new dog. “As soon as I turned my back, I started bawling,” he says. “I felt pathetic, I felt like I was less than a human.” After a quiet upbringing in the Toronto-area cities of Mississauga and Burlington, he began having trouble with alcohol and the law in his teens. He has bounced around Canada since leaving home and has been in and out of jail ever since.
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