A St. John’s man on the brink of homelessness is facing the possibility of losing his son due to a lack of housing options for people with kids.

Tristen Keats, who turns 27 this month, lives with his mother and his three-year-old son, Jacoby, in a small basement apartment that is advertised for only one person.

“Here we are now with people living on the side of the street in tents,” Keats said. “Me and him are just about there now, right? We got a couple months.”

They are running out of time, as his mother’s landlord has given them a few months to find a new place.

He and his son are among the many people caught in the housing crisis that is sweeping across the country and hitting Newfoundland and Labrador. Social housing and emergency shelters are in high demand, leading many people to take the only home they’ve known for months — a tent — and station themselves in public spaces around St. John’s.

And if facing homelessness is tough, when children are involved, the struggle can be worse.

  • Smk
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    8 months ago

    The point of social media is to engage in meaningful arguments and to understand another point of view. All you are doing is just not understanding anything, insulting and being a piece of shit.

    All I said, is that if you look like a shit head full of tattoos, life will be harder on you. A landlord won’t risk to get his shit broken because they pity this guy.

    I don’t understand what’s so hard to get in this. It’s the same thing with job opportunities. If you look like a shit head, you won’t have a job. That’s it.