Court rules homeless have right to camp

Metro Vancouver municipalities will find it harder to dismantle camps or run the homeless out of town after a B.C. court ruling Wednesday supported the right of homeless campers in Abbotsford to create tent cities on public land. The move puts pressure on all cities across the Metro region to find other ways to deal with the growing homeless population, which totalled 2,777 in last year’s one-day homeless count. About 1,800 of those were in Vancouver.