As North American communities struggle with homelessness, one Canadian community has adopted a different strategy by regulating tent encampments rather than outright prohibiting them in an effort to address what one official refers to as the “of the decade” problem.
It has been over a year since Andrew Goodsell moved into his little orange tent on a plot of grass in downtown Halifax.
On a park bench outside his temporary home in late October, the 38-year-old called living at the homeless camp where he and a dozen or so other people reside “depressing.”
As a line of cars passed, Mr. Goodsell remarked, “I wake up in an area I don’t want to be.”
