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CRAB Park homeless encampment cost City of Vancouver $3 million - BC | Globalnews.ca

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The long-running homeless encampment in Vancouver ’s CRAB Park cost the City of Vancouver $3 million .

Those costs went to cover sanitation, engineering, maintenance and repairs, park rangers, police, firefighters and homeless outreach between 2021 and 2024 .

Similar homeless encampments at Vancouver 's Oppenheimer and Strathcona parks cost taxpayers more than $6 million .