Courtney Dahoy, 34, moved back to Calgary this summer for work, after a short period spent living in Camrose. She still hasn't found an affordable place to rent.
While Courtney Dahoy searches for a place to live, she's making it work by living in her SUV.
"You used to be able to find a room to rent for like $600, $500," said Dahoy, an artist with a day job in event set-up and tear-down.Nowadays, she said the going rate seems to be $800 or $900 — and sometimes, there's nothing available at all.Dahoy is confident she'll find something sooner or later. But without a better option in front of her, she's now living out of her SUV.It's not a perfect situation, she said, but it's not that bad.
"The majority of people who are experiencing homelessness or housing precarity are actually people who are not staying in shelters," she said."They're the people who are couch surfing, they're sleeping in their cars, they're sleeping in tents during the summertime.""There has to be the political will to say that housing becomes social responsibility and not just a privilege."As for the word "homeless," Dahoy doesn't think it describes her.
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