The provincial minister is overseeing a program to move about 600 people from tent cities in Vancouver and Victoria into housing
People who had been staying at Oppenheimer Park – seen here on March 26, 2020 – moved earlier this month, and those staying at the two Victoria sites were expected to move by Wednesday, Shane Simpson said.Local governments would have to take the lead if they wanted to set up authorized tent encampments for the homeless, says the provincial minister overseeing a program to move about 600 people from tent cities in Vancouver and Victoria into housing.
Some advocates have called for sanctioned tent cities, with services such as bathrooms and running water, even as the province is wrapping up a process to move about 600 people from three homeless encampments: Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver and the Topaz Park and Pandora Avenue sites in Victoria. Pivot Legal, a Vancouver-based legal advocacy group, recently raised concerns about moving people from encampments into housing, saying in a May 14 letter to the province that the process was causing “immense, unnecessary harm” to campers and was at odds with public health goals and court decisions that have backed their right to set up tents in parks when housing or shelter is not available.
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