Articles by Marvin
I was living in the Orwell Hotel in the Downtown Eastside for the last two years. I didn’t like it because my children could not visit me and the staff said my girlfriend wasn’t allowed to visit. It depressed me. It was no place to live. At the end of April I had enough and left even though I had nowhere else to go. I have been sleeping on the street, in a tent in the Downtown Eastside, for the last two months. It was stressful and dangerous to sleep on the street. I was stuck out in the rain. (…)