A Nanaimo city councillor says he’d pitch a tent in front of the B.C. legislature to make a statement on the province’s ongoing struggle with homelessness.

Gord Fuller and his fellow Nanaimo city councillors are being pressured by local activists to act on the city’s homelessness issue.

A tent city has been erected in a vacant lot in Nanaimo as both a form of protest and a space for some of the city’s homeless to camp.

Activists have been drawn from across the Lower Mainland, many unhappy after the city failed to secure provincial funding in February for a modular housing project because it couldn’t identify a suitable site.

Fuller says