All posts by Penny Gurstein
If cities don’t want homeless encampments they should help people, not punish them
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. This summer, homeless encampments in cities such as Vancouver and Los Angeles and others were dismantled. The reasons varied. In Vancouver, it was fire hazard concerns on Hastings Street, a major artery in the Downtown Eastside, where the…