For years, the City of Vancouver has followed a routine of clearing homeless camps along the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail every two weeks, only to see them reappear just across NE Andresen Road. Officials say the repeated cleanups are essential for health and safety, citing biohazards and fire risks, while also distributing expectations for where camping can and cannot occur. But with limited shelter space and few legal places to go, many campers simply rotate between the same two sites. Critics argue the practice is ineffective without long-term housing solutions, and even some campers say the constant disruption makes life harder. This week’s Clark County Today poll asks: Should the city continue these biweekly evictions?
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A cycle of uncertainty: Homeless camps moved every two weeks from one side of the road to the other
Homeless camps along NE Andresen Road in Vancouver are being cleared by the city every two weeks, with residents simply moving from one side of Burnt Bridge Creek Trail t...
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The real Question should be, how much longer should Mayor Annie and the rest of City Clowncil be allowed to use this ragged collection of vagrants as leverage to justify their 10 year spending plan for their “bridge shelter”? None of these people will ever set foot inside of it anyway because they are either ineligible or unwilling.
Camping at either of these two sites should be permanently banned, immediately. We heard very recently from Spinelli there were only 87 occupants in those tiny homes she bought when they have an intended capacity for 160. Fill them up. Nobody should be squatting in those houses by themselves. Everybody gets a room mate and behaves, or off to jail they go.
Of course that says nothing about the registered sex offenders, addicted hookers and other illegal aliens, and other unsavory characters that will never go into housing, no matter what. Those we need to convince that they are no longer welcome here, will not be comfy if they stay, and convince them to migrate off someplace else.
Not my neighbors.