Under the setting sun, Gary Rush sorts through the belongings he was forced to move from his structure at the Dundas Street encampment once dubbed Shantytown.
He tells CambridgeToday that he along with the other residents of the camp were given two weeks by the city to leave the site as everything there was going to be demolished.
"We were given two weeks to leave. Where are we going to go?," he asked in a shaky voice.
Bylaw officers from the City of Cambridge sat outside the property at 415 Dundas St. N. late this afternoon but directed any questions to the city's communications department.
The city did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Only two former residents of the camp remained; Rush and another individual who declined to give his name. The two sorted through piles of belongings and other materials as they questioned where they were going to spend the night.
"I'm going to take these TVs to a friend's house for the night, but I'm probably going to get robbed with all of my stuff out here," said Rush.
Excavators and garbage bins line the property with work expected to resume tomorrow to clean up the property.
"They're just going to leave this place like this. I guess they would rather it look like a dump than have actual people live here," added Rush.
More to come.
