A Better Tent City

[Acitta]

Depending on how far off construction is, I might have suggested the old Schneiders site, behind the warehouse.  The warehouse would allow easy access to hydro and water.  I don’t know if it’s big enough, but the old hydro sub-station at Courtland and Borden might work.

Lol...funny you say that because there is a tent encampment right there already. Someone even managed to get it marked as a hotel on Google Maps titled "Homeless encampment #1" that had a few joke reviews about how beautiful and safe it is. You can see it on the map here, though the location marker has been removed: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4374485,...a=!3m1!1e3

Can't see Auburn allowing this, though. It's now their property and the last thing they'd want are homeless people living around there and stealing things.

The homeless encampment is long gone. It was not on the Schneiders property, but across the tracks on private property there, and the city ordered it removed. As last reported in December, they expected to start construction this year, though that looks doubtful to me. There is supposed to be a public meeting sometime this summer. They only really finished demolition a month or so ago, and there are still piles of concrete that they have not dealt with.