How Marty Lang lost his $10,000 architect-designed shack

He's lived a lot of places since he was born in the Sault as Marty Lang, son of a Bell telephone employee.

First, a succession of Ontario towns, then Esquimalt, B.C., where Lang served on the HMCS Kootenay.

Most recently, his address has been a garbage-littered lot at the bottom of Parliament Street on Toronto's waterfront.

Yes, that's the infamous Tent City that was recently cleared by security guards retained by the landowner, Home Depot.

When Architect's Alliance decided to give one of the shantytown's residents a specially designed home to demonstrate the possibility of providing low-cost housing for the homeless, the people of Tent City decided it should go to Lang because he'd lived there the longest.

But when the rent-a-cops recently moved on Tent City, Lang was evicted from his $10,000 home, which has an airight wood stove and was insulated to R40 standards.

He, and his now-homeless architect-designed home, are profiled in a lengthy article in today's National Post.

To read the full piece by Larry Krotz, please click here.

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