Senior dreams of housing in RV outside Walmart amid a 'dramatic reversal.'

Keith Light, a 77-year-old former construction worker, has been discharged from hospital after an accident and is now living in a recreational vehicle outside a Walmart in East Vancouver. He dreams of receiving a call from BC Housing and is on the waiting list for subsidized housing for two years. Light is among the large population of elderly people living in poverty or on the brink in British Columbia, where high housing costs exacerbate countrywide cost-of-living issues.

January 27, 2024
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