Volunteers organized social media pages under the name "Tent City 4 Change" to raise awareness and donations.(Henrike Wilhelm/CBC) Known as Tent City for Change, people called the grounds of the Colonial Building in St. John’s home for months. But one year ago, police and government workers came in and took tents and other belongings of people staying there. The CBC’s Darrell Roberts looks back with a man who lived there.

Laurel Huget, left, was one of the volunteers at the tent encampment. Greg Mcain lived at the encampment for months. (Darrell Roberts/CBC)

Jennifer Tipple is the senior director of strategy and impact with End Homelessness St. John's. (Darrell Roberts/CBC) The Picture is of Jennifer Tipple Who is wearing glasses, green sweater and green jacket. Jennifer also wears glasses. Has long brown straight hair with bangs.

Sarah Stoodley, the provincial acting minister of housing, says the province's goal is to build more housing stock. (Darrell Roberts/CBC) Sarah is outside and you can see the street in the background where Sarah is by Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Building in St. John's, NL.

Tent city protesters don't want to go into shelters. These complaints we obtained explain why. There is no minimum standard for shelters in NL but a consultant has been hired to change that.

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