In an RV outside Walmart, a senior dreams of housing as 'dramatic reversal' plays out
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Seventy-seven-year-old Keith Light is back at home in a recreational vehicle outside a Walmart in East Vancouver, having recently been discharged from hospital after an accident.
Seventy-seven-year-old Keith Light is back at home in a recreational vehicle outside a Walmart in East Vancouver, having recently been discharged from hospital after an accident.
He's glad to be out of the “crazy” emergency room at Vancouver General Hospital where he spent a night earlier this month.
But what he really dreams of is a call from BC Housing.
Light spent New Year's Eve trying to get the engine of the RV running to stay warm while trying to imagine better times ahead.
“I just laid here and visualized BC Housing calling me and saying: 'We have a place for you,”' said Light, a former construction worker, whose RV was recently covered with snow from a blast of winter weather.
The Canadian Press previously interviewed Light a year ago, when his RV was parked outside the Canadian Tire store a couple blocks away. Otherwise, not much has changed.
He's been on BC Housing's waiting list for subsidized housing for two years now. Every time he contacts the agency, staff ask him to check back in another six months, he said.
