Smyth: A long, hot summer for Victoria's tent city and its angry neighbours

When the first few tents popped up in his neighborhood last fall, Stephen Hammond figured the homeless camp a few blocks from the B.C. legislature would be a temporary problem.

But a month went by. Then two months. Then three months. Christmas came and went and the tent city only got bigger.

Earlier this year, the B.C. government announced a major effort to house tent-city residents, spending millions of dollars on new shelters and low-barrier housing options.