The Citywide Housing Coalition, Renters at Risk, Community Advocates for Little Mountain, and other groups will surround Vancouver City Hall from 1 to 2 p.m. today.

The event at 12th and Cambie is being held to mark the end of Homelessness Action Week. The groups hope to focus more attention on homlessness in advance of the November civic election in Vancouver.

There will be similar protests in communities across the province.

Meanwhile, the Work Less Party has issued a news release saying it will promote the creation of tent cities in Vancouver parks in the wake of a B.C. Supreme Court decision earlier this week.

Justice Carol Ross struck down a Victoria bylaw prohibiting the homeless from sleeping in Beacon Hill Park.

Work Less Party park board candidate Ivan Doumenc said in the news release that nobody chooses to live in the middle of a park. "But at the Work Less Party we are happy nonetheless, because we expect that tent cities will be short lived and the right to a decent shelter -- which is guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of rights -- will soon become a reality," he said.