Is it possible for someone in power to, at this point in time, say ‘Enough already: we’re going to turn this park back into a park?’
Vancouver’s first homicide victim of 2020 was Jesus Cristobal-Esteban, a 62-year-old Guatemalan immigrant who lived on the city’s east side. Mr. Cristobal-Esteban died in hospital Saturday after being beaten up in Oppenheimer Park, which contains a large homeless encampment. He wasn’t a resident of the camp, but his death was predicted for months. As recently as Dec.
So Vancouver tried to meet that standard in Oppenheimer Park. When conditions in the park started to get really awful in the summer, it found rooms and trailers for 130 residents. Others refused to leave, and some of the rehoused persons came back, having missed the “community spirit” of the place that outreach workers often tout.
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