Erin Schulte has been helping out the homeless for years. She runs a pop-up soup kitchen in Surrey’s 135A Street and last year she gave hundreds of Christmas cards to homeless people with the help of school kids and seniors.
But nine days ago, she found herself in need of help when her landlord gave her an eviction notice.
“For a couple of hours, I cried and I was terrified, and then you put your nose to the ground and [search] Craigslist, and Kijiji,” she said.
Her search was futile.
What she discovered was that bidding wars — which aren’t unheard of in Vancouver —
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