Here’s what Chris knows: Keep your square of sidewalk as tidy as possible, and bylaw will be way less likely to hassle you. He’s a social guy who’d already had 40 or so people stop by on this day and it was only 1 pm. So he keeps a garbage bag at the ready to clean up and keep the heat down. “They call me the Babysitter, because people are always leaving their stuff with me to watch over while they go do something. I’ll have three or four people’s stuff all day.” Having a “stuff babysitter” is critical when you’re living homeless, as there’s no place where people’s carts and wagons can be parked out of the reach of bylaw or others on the block while they shower, try to find a washroom, or get a meal. Chris is seeing people spread out from the Block under the stepped-up bylaw enforcement, slated to get even more intense in June. “I’m seeing people on Johnson, higher up on Yates. We’ve got a lot of streets for people to pick from.”