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Akash Sama­roo

The sight of gal­vanised sheets sprawled like a tat­tered blan­ket over the wood­en rem­nants of what was once a fam­i­ly home, serves as a grim re­minder and re­cur­ring night­mare of the home­less­ness that threat­ens to be­come a re­al­i­ty for young moth­er Tiasha Ed­mund and her four chil­dren.

By now, most are fa­mil­iar with the plight of Ram­jat­tan Trace res­i­dents. Res­i­dents from the hum­ble com­mu­ni­ty in La Hor­quet­ta, which lies with­in earshot of the sound of speed­ing cars on the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way, found bull­doz­ers at their doorsteps ear­li­er this month as the state came to re­claim its land. The de­mo­li­tion stopped on the cusp of Ed­mund’s home. Her wood­en struc­ture stands for now, but she is afraid that it too will soon be re­duced to rub­ble.