Mary Hoxsic knows the encampment along Vancouver’s Burnt Bridge Creek Trail where she lives has a bad reputation. But outsiders don’t know the campers’ stories, she said.
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Source: The Columbian
‘Few places to go’: Those living in Burnt Bridge Creek encampment say it serves a purpose, but city plans to close it
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