Less than a year after having to dismantle a massive tent city in their downtown core, the City of Victoria is batting around a new anti-homeless strategy: Having private citizens billet the homeless. Dubbed Super IntentCity, leaders of the encampment cast themselves as the vanguard of a movement to establish permanent homeless encampments in city cores across Canada. Locals, however, complained that the tent city had spawned a wave of vandalism and property crime. The tent city was dismantled in August, its residents moved to shelters and crews dispatched to carry out a $350,000 environmental remediation of the site. Stephen Hammond was one of the most vocal opponents of the Victoria tent city, and founded a group known as Mad As Hell in opposition.

Source: National Post June 14, 2017 18:46 UTC