This single dad makes $75K a year. He can't find affordable housing in Vancouver

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Karl Eaton has been working since he was 16 years old.

Today he has a full-time job with Telus, making approximately $74,900 a year, but the 55-year-old single father says his take-home pay isn’t enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Vancouver for himself and his son.

“I’m gonna be homeless in probably 30 days if I don’t find a place that I can afford — reasonably afford — without it taking my whole salary,” he told The Early Edition host Gloria Macarenko.

Eaton and his 18-year-old son Tristan have been living in basement suites for the past two years but kept having to

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