‘Just because I’m homeless, why should I leave?’: Vancouver sued over right to live in public spaces

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Clarence Taylor is 57-years-old.

He has a home now, a roof over his head, but for three years he lived on the streets. Circumstances knocked him down and it was out beneath the stars on Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach that he preferred to sleep because, as he told local reporters this week, he was “horrified” by the drugs and violence and decrepit hotels of the city’s notorious Downtown Eastside — and because Kitsilano was not Surrey.

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