The group Stop the Sweeps led a press conference urging the City of Vancouver, police and park rangers not to evict anyone, and to suspend enforcement of the Park Control Bylaw.
These housing advocates should donate their backyards and couches to the people who are making encampments. But I know they won't, cause they're all neo liberal NIMBYs who don't actually care about the homeless issue.
At the end of the day, you could provide every single homeless person with a home and half would willingly go back to the streets. Unless you agree to forcibly remove the people who want to be homeless or are too mentally ill to make the decision, you'll always have a homeless issue. And if you think letting the mentally ill or willingly homeless set up shanty towns is an option, go look at Central America and see how that works out. They just become permanent.
B.c, particularly Vancouver and Victoria are full of wannabe do gooders, stepping over homeless people while they enjoy their wealthy lifestyles and pretend they're progressive
Are you honestly unaware of the concepts of people who chose to be homeless? It's a pretty documented thing. It has to do with their unwillingness or inability to keep a regular life and schedule,etc. lots of sources out there on Google. Go downtown in any major city, you'll find plenty of homeless people who refuse shelters and help.