Pivot Legal Society is going to court on behalf of a former homeless man to challenge three Vancouver city bylaws.
Lawyer Scott Bernstein says a 57-year-old man was ticketed and harassed, when he couldn’t find shelter space.
“The combination of the three bylaws say there is no legal place for a homeless person to sleep outside and it also prohibits people who are sleeping outside from sheltering themselves with a tarp or some other kind of thing over themselves. So what we are doing is we are bringing a constitutional challenge to these bylaws.”
Bernstein says city staff force the homeless into parks and back alleys where they become victims of crime and violence.
He says a court challenge against similar bylaws was recently won in Victoria.
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