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Penny Gurstein, Professor Emeritus, and Director of Housing Research Collaborative, University of British Columbia

If cities don't want homeless encampments they should help people, not punish them

Tents line the sidewalk on East Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Cities like Vancouver should not clear encampments when people have nowhere else to go. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

This summer, homeless encampments in cities such as Vancouver and Los Angeles and others were dismantled.

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