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Rare Five Years Ago, Tent Cities Are Now Everywhere

Homeless camps that were meant to be temporary have become a permanent feature in Canadian communities.
Rare Five Years Ago, Tent Cities Are Now Everywhere
A homeless camp along a busy boulevard in Montreal on Oct. 8, 2020. The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson
Marco Navarro-Génie
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As Canadians settle in for the holiday season, 60,000 people across this country will spend Christmas night in a tent, a doorway, or a shelter bed intended to be temporary. Some will have been there for months, perhaps years. The number has quadrupled in six years.

Marco Navarro-Génie
Marco Navarro-Génie
Author
Marco Navarro-Génie is president of the Haultain Research Institute. He is co-author, with Barry Cooper, of “Canada’s COVID-19: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic.”