A family problem

Blood relations or not, we all share responsibility for our brothers and sisters on the street
Rick Ouston, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, April 25, 2008

We apply many labels to people living on the street. The homeless. Unemployable. Binners. Bag ladies.

But when Christina Windsor Reid of Vancouver saw her brother Rick Windsor being interviewed on a Global television newscast after getting his only possessions in a pair of shopping buggies crushed by a city garbage crew (see story below), she knew what Rick said was true.

He was homeless, looking for affordable housing -- he often does -- and now he owned nothing.

Read the rest here.

Follow-up story here.