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#Strathcona Park tent city: A 5-month timeline of government neglect 
June 19 - Displaced from Oppenheimer Park under @mikefarnworthbc's public safety order (& then CRAB Park), unhoused folx set up +/- 30 tents
July 9 - Encampment grows to +/- 300 tents
#Vanpoli #BCpoli
June 19 - Displaced from Oppenheimer Park under @mikefarnworthbc's public safety order (& then CRAB Park), unhoused folx set up +/- 30 tents
July 9 - Encampment grows to +/- 300 tents
#Vanpoli #BCpoli
July 12 - @ParkBoard passes motion to allow temp overnight sheltering; no follow-up
Aug 5 - @jjhorgan govt announces 60 bed #YVR "navigation centre" to "hopefully" arrive by spring 2021
Aug 9 - @VancouverPD ramps up patrols around Strathcona Park over series of violent assaults
Aug 5 - @jjhorgan govt announces 60 bed #YVR "navigation centre" to "hopefully" arrive by spring 2021
Aug 9 - @VancouverPD ramps up patrols around Strathcona Park over series of violent assaults
Aug 9 - @ShaneLSimpson confirms "disorder" in Strathcona Park & threat from criminal "predators"
Sept 1 - Encampment grows to 400+ tents
Sept 8 - @kennedystewart introduces motion for “collective action” to provide "emergency COVID-19 relief" for tent city residents
Sept 1 - Encampment grows to 400+ tents
Sept 8 - @kennedystewart introduces motion for “collective action” to provide "emergency COVID-19 relief" for tent city residents
Sept 14 - @CityofVancouver council directs staff to report on emergency shelter options
Oct 2 - City staff report back to council w/ 5 options; describe homeless situation as "humanitarian crisis"; say option $ costs are "significant" but "cost of doing nothing is greater"
Oct 2 - City staff report back to council w/ 5 options; describe homeless situation as "humanitarian crisis"; say option $ costs are "significant" but "cost of doing nothing is greater"
Oct 8 - @kennedystewart & council approve $30M to "provide emergency COVID-19 relief" by "immediately activating temporary Pandemic Shelter(s)" & "triaging unsheltered people"
Oct 27 - @JustinTrudeau govt announces $51.5M in "Rapid Housing Initiative" funds for #Vancouver
Oct 27 - @JustinTrudeau govt announces $51.5M in "Rapid Housing Initiative" funds for #Vancouver
Nov 5 - Man has limbs amputated after being assaulted in tent city in Sept & left unattended for several hours https://bc.ctvnews.ca/man-assaulted-in-strathcona-park-loses-leg-may-lose-arm-1.5177270
Nov 10 - **No "emergency relief" in sight at Strathcona Park**; campers heat tents & install chimneys; snow in Vancouver short-term forecast
Nov 10 - **No "emergency relief" in sight at Strathcona Park**; campers heat tents & install chimneys; snow in Vancouver short-term forecast
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