Widower living with toddler at B.C. rest stop desperate for housing
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A father living in an RV in B.C.’s Fraser Valley with his toddler for more than a year has become even more desperate to find housing after facing a tragic loss.
A father living in an RV in B.C.’s Fraser Valley with his toddler for more than a year has become even more desperate to find housing after facing a tragic loss.
Chris, 44, has been staying at the Cole Road rest stop in Abbotsford with his 18-month-old boy.
“He’s all I care about and it’s going to be that way forever,” said Chris.
Like other rest stops and Park-and-Rides through Abbotsford, this one has become a makeshift trailer park filled with campers. Some of them say they have nowhere else to go because of escalating rental costs.
We first met Chris last February, camping in the same trailer with his partner Danielle, their son and their dog. They were looking for a way out.
“I’m embarrassed. I hate it. I don’t like it but what other option do I have?” Chris said in an interview at the time.
He said he had just begun working part-time and both he and Danielle seemed to be getting back on their feet again.
