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Local not-for-profit RainCity Housing has launched a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need for affordable and social housing in Vancouver.

A new interactive website, vancouverstreetview.ca, allows users to toggle between Google Street View images taken in the last four years and, by juxtaposing snapshots from then and now, see how the homeless population has grown across Metro Vancouver.

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Statistics from Metro Vancouver show a 30 per cent increase in homelessness between 2014 and 2017, and in the City of Vancouver, there has been a 21 per cent increase over that same timeframe.

“The Google Street View images in our campaign, much like the homeless counts, are just snapshots in time of a much larger issue,” said Aaron Munro, Associate Director at RainCity Housing. “The campaign images show homelessness in the Greater Vancouver Area is changing our cities, but that there is a solution in providing affordable and social housing, and we need to show our support around it.”