Showers and more coming as the city launches a slow-moving plan to clear the site.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Activist Fiona York says the warming tent and washrooms are long overdue.
Photo by Jesse Winter.
After two deaths, assaults that left two young men with permanent disabilities, a stabbing and a burn injury, the city and park board are finally planning to add showers, more washrooms and a warming tent to a tent city that has been in Vancouver’s Strathcona Park since June.