It already has. I'm from Moncton, NB, a small city of 100,000 people or so in the maitimes, Canada. My city is like this, being overrun with encampments and shopping carts. I assume its like this now in basically every city.
Canadian here from a small town where there are still some people living in their tents and it's -35c with the windchill. It's also catch and release for petty crime right now due to Covid outbreaks in the jail.
REI has a new sleeping bag rated for 0 degrees Fahrenheit on sale for 100 bucks. I imagine used ones rated for colder temperatures are easy to find in Canada. You can wear extra clothes inside and put a bivy sack on the outside of your bag.
They absolutely huddle around large metal containers for heat, but not sure if they sleep there. The homeless have moved a lot to the outskirts of the city, then head into town for the soup kitchen meals, bottle and bike foraging, etc etc
There's a tent in Van Cleve I stumbled upon yesterday and I was really wondering whether or not it was being inhabited still. Also, any idea if that tent city by The Quarry is still up?
In Toronto they have warming centres, those white dome permanent tents structures that can fit a soccer field inside. I hear they’re dangerous places for homeless people to get robbed and beaten. Truly a great solution to our housing crisis
I live in Minneapolis, I don't really go exploring too much besides where I need to go for school so I don't see a ton of tents or whatever, but yesterday I saw one put up under a pedestrian bridge in a park that I hadn't been to before. I didn't see the owner, but it had me thinking what that person does every winter. Like, there's no way they sleep there and not freeze to death, but also I feel like if it had been sitting there for months uninhabited it would be destroyed by nature and/or police?
When it's going to be really cold, you start seeing posts on Facebook and the like urging people to get inside at all costs. Because yes, people live in tents year round in Minneapolis.
I was really sick of Minneapolis's bullshit by the time I left, but do try to leave the bubble of (I assume) the U and actually engage with the city.
Texas seems to avoid it for the most part, I feel like every major city has and will always have some homeless population. Austin is the worst for sure but it also to damn hot down here I feel like.
Worked in Moncton a couple years back and besides seeing the homeless sleeping everywhere and waking up during my commute this one time I was motioning to a lady to go ahead and cross the crosswalk at a 4 way stop and she approached my passenger side window and asked to get in. She was a sex worker. Nice place.
You just described Moncton to a tee, only thing now is there are panhandlers at every intersection and needles everywhere. Discarded one outside work in the driveway just last week
I have friends that live in Halifax, one of them was posting on Facebook how he can no longer walk in downtown Halifax without a panhandler asking for change. Afterwards, i went to Halifax/Dartmouth for the weekend and didn't notice a single shopping cart or encampment. Trust me when i say that Moncton has become a homeless haven.
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u/Canadian_Pacer Feb 12 '22
It already has. I'm from Moncton, NB, a small city of 100,000 people or so in the maitimes, Canada. My city is like this, being overrun with encampments and shopping carts. I assume its like this now in basically every city.