Officials have announced plans to close the designated homeless encampment in Vancouver’s CRAB Park within a matter of weeks, prompting worry and frustration among residents.
Park rangers attended the waterfront park Wednesday morning to deliver a draft closure plan to the seven homeless campers still living there in tents.
The city intends to clear the designated camping area in just 15 days, on Nov. 7.
In the meantime, deputy city manager Sandra Singh said a homeless outreach team will be working with the campers in an effort to identify adequate housing or shelter options before they are evicted.
“Five of the seven people remaining have been offered housing and have refused those offers, with one person having refused three offers,” Singh told reporters at a news conference Wednesday.
“Just last week a very, very good housing offer was refused and we were quite disappointed.”
Her remarks were briefly interrupted by …