Clearing encampments in Cambridge and Guelph [Video]

Some people living rough in Cambridge and Guelph have been forced to find a new place to sleep after two encampments were dismantled this week.

In the City of Cambridge, heavy machinery was brought in to help clean up the site of a former encampment.

The equipment was first spotted in at Dundas Street and Samuelson Street on Wednesday after at least four people experiencing homelessness set up an encampment in the area. By 3 p.m. that afternoon, most of the tents and structures had been removed.

On Thursday, crews could be seen picking up garbage and remaining debris in the area. The city also blocked off a portion of Dundas Street to give its workers room to manoeuvre and dismantle the encampment.

“We’re seeing the results of decades and decades of cuts to health care, cuts to education, cuts to housing and cuts to social services,” Ward 7 Councillor …