VANCOUVER — An advocacy group and others are making a final plea to the City of Vancouver to hold off on its second phase of a plan to clean up the site of a homeless camp in Crab Park.
The group called Stop the Sweeps and residents of the encampment oppose the move, saying they're being offered small, fenced pens to live while the city bulldozes their community, which includes a warming tent and kitchen.
Vancouver officials announced earlier this month that dozens of homeless people staying in the city's only legal encampment would have to temporarily move because the site had become unsafe and unhygienic.
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