Living in a dilapidated home, this Musqueam Elder asked his First Nation leaders for help. He's still waiting

It’s been almost four weeks since 76-year-old Musqueam band member Dunstan Campbell officially asked his First Nation to help him secure safe housing.

Campbell turned to the band about a year ago, when his rental home in Sunset, the southern Vancouver neighbourhood, was sold and he had to move out.

He had hoped the band would temporarily put him up in a trailer or hotel, but they didn’t. So in November 2022, he was forced to return to his old home — which he thought by then was condemned. This also forced him to move in with his tenant as a roommate.

Last week, the CBC met Campbell at his home in Musqueam — in southwest Vancouver,

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