Katie Lewis, vice-president of the Strathcona Residents' Association, stands in front of a homeless encampment at Strathcona Park, in Vancouver on Oct. 7, 2020.Residents of a Vancouver neighbourhood were comfortable with a few people sleeping overnight in a park before moving on, but Kelsey Mulyk says they weren’t prepared for homeless campers to continue occupying 400 tents for more than three months.
The campers moved into Strathcona Park after the Vancouver Port Authority won a court injunction requiring them to leave nearby CRAB park. That was after a previous encampment at Oppenheimer Park was shut down by the B.C. government in April after nearly two years over fears of COVID-19 spreading. Katie Lewis, vice-president of the Strathcona Residents’ Association, said people in the neighbourhood want the city to shut down the encampment for safety reasons. The health of those who are living at the park is also at risk, Ms. Lewis said.
“I’m asking them to approve both the strategic direction as well as the allocation of money,” Mr. Stewart said on Wednesday. “What isn’t an option is delay. If we go into the council meeting and councillors don’t make a decision, that’s really the big problem. So what we need is a yes to this proposal,” he said, adding he would then approach the federal and provincial governments for funding.
You appear to believe our neighbourhood is called Strathcona Park. It’s actually just called Strathcona. The campers are the current residents of Strathcona Park. FYI
Some times issues concerning homelessness can be seen as dowń-right vagrants at large?
The mother wants to teach empathy, well fill your boots sister, the dopers and pimps, and prostitutes and the discharged cured mentally ill will be breaking into your home shortly. Be prepared.
Don't blame them. Probably full of druggies.
Why are homeless people not dying of the CON-vid?