Homeless campers invade vacant Nanaimo school

Just hours after the province announced it would provide 170 units of supportive housing for residents of Nanaimo’s tent city, homeless advocates occupied an empty school for a “schoolhouse squat.”
About 30 people from Nanaimo’s DisconTent City entered the school and by Friday evening, they were standing on the roof of Rutherford Elementary School, looking at RCMP officers below.
The group “opened the door” to get into the school, said Sophie Wending, a tent c