Some tenants displaced from a Sargent Avenue apartment building are now calling a riverbank encampment home after they had to scramble to find new housing.

Terry Johnsen, one of the residents, has set up shelter in a tent on the riverbank. He was forced out of the building two weeks before the order to vacate due to a fire.

“It’s everything you can imagine that you don’t want,” Johnsen said. “You’re forced from where you know everybody to where you don’t know anybody.”