“It was a whole family living in a van beside Riley Park with two kids, bedding down for the night, with mattresses and piles of clothes. If we don’t get this right, we’ll be seeing more of this kind of result a lot sooner than people think. Things are desperate, urgent and a lot of people feel helpless. What’s very new is if you had money, you could find a place to live, but now it’s about availability . . . people are scared,” explained Meaghon Reid discussing the need for housing in Calgary.

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