Vancouver DTES tent city to be cleared by Wednesday, but residents say there’s nowhere to go
Vancouver officials are doubling down on Monday’s order to clear a growing tent city on the 100 block of East Hastings Street this week, but residents say they have no other housing options to turn to.
Tents and other temporary structures have long been a fixture of East Hastings Street, but a number of permanent tents and the scale of the encampment have grown rapidly since the start of July. Residents of the tent encampment, meanwhile, say it is exceedingly difficult to live inside poorly-ventilated SRO units during the hot summer months, which pose a health risk.The city said Monday it will offer additional supports “for those sheltering outdoors.”
Mannoe said the lack of proper emergency housing during an ongoing heat wave — with temperatures exceeding 30 C across Metro Vancouver and nearly the rest of B.C. — makes the order particularly ill-timed. “We need to be all-hands-on-deck and really working together with senior governments, with Coastal Health, to figure out something better — because this isn’t working,” he said.
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