A lawsuit by the Friends of Beacon Hill Park is looking to sue the City of Victoria into evicting Beacon Hill Park's tent encampments

“Most of the people we see are from somewhere else,” an outreach worker told The Capital

It took a city audit, drone surveys and hundreds of pages of legal documents to move 60 campers from one part of Beacon Hill Park to another part

Only four hospital beds exist in Victoria for people presenting with an emergency mental health issue. If you’re non-violent but experiencing a severe psychiatric crisis in Victoria, there’s basically nowhere to go

Despite fears they would be among the hardest hit by the pandemic, North America’s street communities emerged relatively unscathed

Clean rooms, round-the-clock outreach workers, and semi-regular fires

Encampments will remain, but be urged to move into other parts of the park