I spy with my little eye….pretty much a little bit of everything. Eric, right, says he and his friends enjoy time on the block hanging out together while sorting through the many random things they collect in their wanderings, and that the time spent sorting “keeps the energy moving.” He and his friends talked of…

Georgia says her shelter allowance is still paying for a room in the social housing complex behind this blue fence, but she’s living on the sidewalk out in front of it right now. She feels safer, and less likely to end up in conflict with staff members who she doesn’t trust or like. Unlike most…

Norman knows he’ll have to move inside one of these days, but hates the thought of giving up the wide open spaces he’s grown used to after living outside for years. “The places they want me to live, I can’t live in them. I’m comfortable on the street, to tell you the truth. But I’m…

Roy thought he’d caught a lucky break when he found a push scooter that let him rest his bad leg while pushing with his good one. But he caught a wheel in a street grate last week and went down hard, smashing up his face – two black eyes – and the knee on his…

Busy day at the bottle recycling depot, especially on the side where binners come to sort their giant bags of returns. Awesome figures she has about $20 worth today – 200 containers at a dime each – and was keeping a close eye on them as she sorted after an acquaintance had his own $20…

Wait – is that a line of porta potties and a wash-up station for people living homeless that has been kindly set up at the corner of Cormorant and Blanshard? Nope, says Edward – they’re for striking BCGEU workers, and are locked up tight when the picketers leave for the day. Access to washrooms, drinking…

Strawberry has many thoughts around action to end homelessness after five years on the streets and no offers of help to get housed. She’d start by taking an empty lot and dividing it into squares, each with room for a tent. Add in portapotties and wash-up stations for the site, storage for carts, mental health…

That’s Spencer on the right, with his hammy pal Alex (who was the daily post here at StreetStories a couple days back). Spencer had just landed a bed at Rock Bay Landing the day before after a hard month outside. He used to make a living going door to door to wash windows, but the…

Tristan really wants housing, but it’s got to be a place that doesn’t allow drug use: “I’m not going to get sober that way.” He used to spend his days on Pandora Avenue, but has relocated farther north nearer to the food bank after police made it clear that they’d be arresting people for possession…

Kelvin has found his happy place in McBride, BC after six terrible years of living homeless in Victoria and Toronto. That finally came to an end in 2022 when an informal group of local “Robinhooders,” the Friends of Stadacona Park, paid for his transportation from Victoria to McBride, about 210 km southeast of Prince George.…