Eleven-year-old Raina Troupe is used to winding through tents to get to her school bus stop along Jefferson Street in downtown Vancouver. Her family’s little yellow house is occasionally surrounded by tarp-covered tents when the homeless camp in her neighborhood grows too large.
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Source: The Columbian
Those living in west Vancouver’s decade-old ‘Share camp’ say they have nowhere else to go
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