The longtime homeless camp in the Vancouver Crab park Costing $ 3 million in the city of Vancouver.
These costs were devoted to cover sanitation, engineering, maintenance and repairs, park guards, police, firefighters and awareness of the homeless between 2021 and 2024, when the camp was finally been farm.
“It is an extraordinary sum of money and it really shows why these urban camps are not appropriate places for people shelter,” said ABC city councilor Vancouver, Peter Meiszner, to Global News .
The figure of $ 3 million does not include the rehabilitation costs of the park after the end of the camp in November.
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Between 2018 and 2021, homeless camps similar to the Oppenheimer and Strathcona de Vancouver parks cost taxpayers more than $ 6 million,
The advisers agree that the money could have been better spent to approach homelessness.
“It is a cost that is borne by the province, it is a cost borne by the city, it is a cost borne by the park council and we could surely put this money to better use and meet the needs of people “Said Green City Councilor Pete Fry.
A Fry option wants the city to look is tiny shelters. At around $ 15,000 each, $ 3 million would have funded 200.
The previous Vancouver municipal council approved a pilot project For 100 square feet units in February 2022.
Everyone is supposed to be equipped with heat and air conditioning, power, space for two people and a lock on the door.
Former mayor Kennedy Stewart did not respond to a request for interview with Global News, while neither the deputy director of the city, Sandra Singh nor the director general of the board of directors of Vancouver Park, Steve Jackson, N ‘were available Wednesday for interviews on the Crab Park camp.
While fencing around the old camping site has recently been overthrown, the refuge area overnight remains prohibited three months after its closure to protect the soil newly sown against wet and cold temperatures.
The city says that it hopes to reopen the space this spring.
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