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CRAB Park campers brace for eviction [Video]

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People living in a small encampment at CRAB Park are preparing for eviction Thursday morning.

It comes after the City of Vancouver notified the people living in seven tents last week that it plans to return the site to what it calls “regular daytime use.”

“I’m defeated. Defeated. Plainly defeated,” three-year park resident Sacha Christiano told CTV News on Wednesday. “That’s the best way to put it. I don’t know any other avenue that’s available to make this point to anybody else.”

It’s an emotional time for those who’ve been calling this camp home – although there are just seven tents still standing.

While some of the people who have been living in the park have been offered shelter spaces, the prospect of moving indoors isn’t appealing to some who have previously been offered housing.

“All of them have pests,” a resident named Jenni told CTV News. “Cockroaches, ants, they’ve …

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