City Blames Property Owners for Encampments | Winnipeg News

Winnipieg News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 23, 2026 · 1m

A Winnipeg property manager is furious after the city ordered him to clean up a years-old homeless encampment on his land — complete with needles, clothes, and fences cut through — and threatened to bill him if he doesn’t. He argues the city should handle the encampments, not pass the cost to him, while a city councillor calls the situation absurd and unfair. The city says bylaw officers acted on abandoned items, but the property manager insists police relocation is just a temporary fix. He’s caught in a frustrating cycle where no one’s solving the real problem — just shifting blame and…