At the end of his day, Lucas Philips drives to his home overlooking Spanish Banks Beach in Vancouver, near some of the most expensive real estate in Canada.
But Philips is no wealthy property owner. His home is a Vanguard campervan berthed in a beachside parking lot.
But more people are sleeping in vehicles as a last resort, as they try to stave off full-blown homelessness in the notoriously expensive city. Retired Californian mechanical engineer Alex Mosson, 58, was parked last week at Spanish Banks in a beige recreational vehicle he called his “tiny house." Their windows were screened with makeshift curtains for privacy, their back seats and truck beds packed with possessions.November rain dripped off the face of one man as he made repairs to his white box truck, strewn in black graffiti. He declined to give his name for an interview, saying he found his circumstances humiliating.
Living for an extended period in a trailer in Vancouver is mostly due to the “reality of the housing market here," said Kurpjuweit. In 2021, Light sold his island home to pay off debts. He said this week that it wasn’t until he'd relocated to Metro Vancouver that he realized housing costs were “ten times higher” than on Pender.
Since October, 47 notices reminding owners of parking rules were issued and most vehicles parked overnight at Spanish Banks had moved, she said.Paul Kershaw, a policy professor at the University of British Columbia's school of population, said many people living in vans are “just as smart and as hard-working” as homeowners.
She used to live in Vancouver’s West End in a trailer, an experience that compelled her to get into politics to try to make things “a little more affordable."She lived in her trailer for three years as "cheerfully and optimistically" as she could, equipping it with a projector and hosting board games with friends.
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