During the past few months, communities throughout B.C. have witnessed periodical and seemingly random street sweeps - also known as homeless encampment clean-ups - conducted mainly by bylaw enforcement and police officers.
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I do not believe that dispossessing our unhoused population of their belongings is a productive way to address the homelessness issue.