Clean-up to take place on March 25, residents will be allowed to return to the encampment a week later, say city officials
Vancouver officials say the dozens of homeless people staying in the city's only legal encampment have to temporarily move out because the space has become unsafe and unhygienic.The City of Vancouver is temporarily moving dozens of homeless people from an encampment on the waterfront so it can clean up the site to address safety concerns, though residents fear that they will be permanently evicted.
“We have no sense of the structural integrity of what’s there. And the peninsula is small. It’s not feasible to phase it,” Ms. Singh said Tuesday. City staff displayed graphic photos of the site during a news conference showing heaps of bicycles, metal, plywood, tents and belongings.latest initiative adds to the varying approaches by cities across the country to address the health and social issues posed by entrenched encampments.
The CRAB Park camp has existed for about three years, with some residents moving there after a nearby encampment at Strathcona Park was cleared. The park board tried to get an injunction to move people out of the park in 2021, but a Supreme Court judge in 2022 rejected the request without a guarantee of appropriate housing to move people to.
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