Where in Metro Vancouver area are most homeless people located?
Almost every neighborhood in Vancouver experiences homelessness. While many services are concentrated in the Downtown Eastside, homelessness counts have identified many people sleeping in parks in the West End, along retail corridors like Mt. Pleasant, Commercial Drive, South Granville or Kitsilano’s Fourth Avenue as well as places Pacific Spirit Park or Queen Elizabeth’s garden [viii]. Vancouver is not alone in having a homelessness crisis; there are over 3,000 people who are homeless in the Lower Mainland.
