Chris worked in the oil patch and logging camps back in the day, and he likes having work now cleaning up garbage on the streets where people live homeless. “I do this three times a week and get $25 for 45 minutes,” he says. “It suits me to have some work. I really enjoy it.” Chris was homeless for 20 years, “but the streets were nothing like this in those days.” He moved into supportive housing six years ago, into an old seniors’ care home on Johnson that was converted to house campers after the 2015 crackdown on a tent city at the courthouse. It’s not the dream home by any stretch, notes Chris, who sees how easily other residents have been evicted straight back into homelessness from the building. But at least the “murderers and gang bangers” who lived there in years past are gone. “I come out here and see all these empty buildings everywhere, all for investment. You shouldn’t be able to use any land for investment.”