There was an explosion of street homelessness in Vancouver in 2020, with 400 some people eventually occupying a park. Everyone was on /r/vancouver was like "wh

There was an explosion of street homelessness in Vancouver in 2020, with 400 some people eventually occupying a park. Everyone was on /r/vancouver was like "where did all these people come from?!" Well it's as you say. They were the "hidden homeless," couch surfing at their friends. All of a sudden the pandemic hit and these publicly owned social housing apartments added new rules saying "no guests" and such, and suddenly boom, you see the real amount of homeless.