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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.
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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.
The Globe and Mail Published December 14, 2020
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The Vancouver park board has agreed privately to allow its staff to proceed with injunctions to clear Strathcona Park, but it will likely be months before the city’s most visible homeless camp will be cleared.
In an in-camera meeting last month, park board commissioners agreed to injunction only if there was a guarantee that people had housing to move to. The park board has resolutely refused to seek an injunction to clear out a sprawling tent city in the Strathcona neighbourhood. The park is now home to about 500 tents with an estimated 200 homeless people living there.