Memorable story: Coverage exposes Saskatoon's hidden housing crisis

The squalid garage where Mary-Ann and Jonathan McLeod lived for a few months over the summer is almost exactly one mile from my home.
It might as well have been a million.
Nothing could have prepared me for the hopelessness that pervaded every corner of their apartment, with its shattered kitchen and boarded-up windows, its scorched stove and concrete floors. 
Meeting the McLeods and seeing firsthand the deplorable conditions in which they, through no fault of their own, lived turned abstra