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Vancouver starts removing, cleaning homeless camps

Goals are sanitation and education, not relocation

By Dylan Jefferies, Columbian staff writer
Published: May 22, 2022, 6:05am
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A man tries to take shelter from the wind and rain as he descends the stairs in front of the Share House in downtown Vancouver earlier this month. Several camps surrounding the Share House were removed for cleaning and sanitation by the city of Vancouver's Homeless Assistance Response Team throughout May. Before the camps were cleared, some 40 people were living there. People quickly returned to the area following the cleaning.
A man tries to take shelter from the wind and rain as he descends the stairs in front of the Share House in downtown Vancouver earlier this month. Several camps surrounding the Share House were removed for cleaning and sanitation by the city of Vancouver's Homeless Assistance Response Team throughout May. Before the camps were cleared, some 40 people were living there. People quickly returned to the area following the cleaning. (Photos by Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

In early April, large homeless encampments could be found throughout Vancouver. Roughly 40 campers clustered near the Share House in west Vancouver, and about 25 people lived at an encampment north of Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard, where Northeast Chkalov Drive turns into 112th Avenue.

Those were just two of many encampments throughout the city, most of which housed about 15 to 30 people, according to Jamie Spinelli, the city of Vancouver’s homeless response coordinator.

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