As summer approaches, City of Yellowknife mulls support for encampment residents

As summer approaches, City of Yellowknife mulls support for encampment residents

The City of Yellowknife on Wednesday will begin mulling whether to develop a formal policy on homeless encampments — while some residents of those encampments wonder what their surroundings will look like now that the warmer months are back.

Unhoused residents get an extension at Gilroy encampment

About 20 residents of a homeless encampment off Sixth Street can stay on the city-owned property on a month-to-month basis after the Gilroy City Council voted to extend a previous deadline to leave.  In February, a council majority voted to give the residents of the camp, known as “Camp Hope,” 90 days to clean up and move out before facing a potential eviction. But on May 4, after hearing from city staff, police, homeless advocates and members o…