A Better Tent City land use agreement extended to 2025
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It’s good news for the tiny home community's 50 residents – including one who's ready to move on.
A Better Tent City will be able to stay at its current location for at least the next year and a half.
On Monday, the city announced it had extended the tiny home community’s land use agreement to May 2025. It’s been at the site on Ardelt Avenue, which is owned by the City of Kitchener and the Waterloo Region District School Board, since moving in 2021.
It’s good news for the 50 people experiencing homelessness who live there – including one who’s ready to move on.
“I recently got housing,” says resident Rick King. “I’ve been about 11 years on a waiting list for it. So that was a long time coming, but it came at a perfect time.”
According to King, it would have never happened if it weren’t for A Better Tent City.
“I'd probably be in the ground by now – there’s no probably to it, I would be.”
King, 57, has been without a home for just over a decade. He explains he once had a very different life, with a job, a home and a family,
