The B.C. government is still aiming to move residents of an entrenched Vancouver homeless camp to temporary housing by its Saturday deadline, but says it needs more time for residents at a pair of camps in Victoria.
Two weeks ago, the province unveiled a plan to move homeless people out of Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park and Victoria’s Topaz Park and Pandora Avenue camps and into temporary housing in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus among an especially vulnerable population. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] So far, 320 people from all three sites have moved into accommodations, such as hotels, and paired with mental health and addictions services, access to a clean supply of drugs for