By noon, the sidewalks on the 100\u002Dblock of Hastings were mostly clear.
Across the street, crews pulled black plastic garbage bins out of the back of a van and helped load them with people’s belongings. Sanitation crews scribbled the owner’s name on top of the bin in black marker before loading it into one of the half dozen moving vans parked in the street.Scenes from E. Hastings St as the City of Vancouver remove tents with the Vancouver Police Department standing by in Vancouver, BC., April 5, 2023.
In recent weeks, however, remaining residents have been “unco-operative,” Sim said during a news conference at city hall. For people who must remove their structures and have indicated that they do not have housing and want shelter, the city said it will continue efforts to connect them with available beds.
She said problems for the shop have escalated in the past two years. People don’t shoplift, they steal openly. And if they can’t steal, they vandalize, she said. The city’s homelessness services outreach team will “remain connected with people from the encampment zone with whom they have been working and support them with access to shelter and housing as it becomes available,” said the city.
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