CRAB Park tent encampment closed down as final residents moved out

Vancouver’s lone sanctioned stateless encampment has been closed down.

CRAB Park has been the location of an encampment since 2021 but those who stay surviving determination were asked to battalion up their tents starting astatine 8 a.m. connected Thursday to comply with parkland bylaws.

Only 7 radical were near surviving successful the encampment and the Vancouver Park Board said each person idiosyncratic modulation plans successful spot that were developed with outreach workers.

The metropolis forced residents retired successful April truthful unit could cleanable up the country and make a impermanent sheltering space.

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The Gastown Residents Association said it welcomes the quality astir the parkland but the Union of BC Indian Chiefs has called connected the Vancouver Park Board to halt the planned eviction, calling it an inhumane enactment and a convulsive disregard for quality rights.

When residents were forced retired successful the spring, cleanup crews removed 20 propane tanks, six generators and much than 90,000 kilograms of different material.