As cities across North America grapple with homelessness, one Canadian city has taken a different approach by regulating tent encampments instead of banning them, as it tries to tackle what one official calls the issue “of the decade”.
Andrew Goodsell has called his small orange tent on a grassy patch in downtown Halifax home for almost a year.
In late October, on a park bench outside his makeshift dwelling, the 38-year-old described life at the homeless encampment where he lives with about a dozen or so others as “depressing”.
Honest but otherwise known as washing your hands of it.
