Evicted During COVID-19
Michelle Leggeh called us at the end of April, after her husband brought home our pamphlet offering eviction defense to tenants rent striking and facing threats from their landlords. After 7 years living in her building along King George Boulevard in Surrey and fighting…
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Evicted during COVID-19: Modular housing tenant barricades herself in her room to…
Update: On May 18, Kristina received a notice from Lookout Health and Housing Society, stating that her eviction…
The story of Cloud City and the problem with BC’s $300 welfare bonus
Once there existed two societies in a place called Cloud City: Upper and Lower. Upper was “enlightened”: learned…
“I believe in the future”: A Black Indigenous woman’s struggle for home, family,…
Karen Juanita Lane is a long-time activist and resident of the DTES who reached out to Red Braid in March to ask…
Poor women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside respond to Trudeau’s $40…
On April 4th, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $207 million COVID-19 aid package for homeless…
Inside the Hothouse Squat
It was a small walk from our meeting point to the squat, and we all walked in small groups to respect the COVID-19…
RCMP evict Surrey’s Hothouse Squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive…
On April 1st 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of poor and homeless people and supporters took…
Gentrification and COVID-19: Fast-tracking the death of Surrey’s poor
When the City of Surrey forcibly dismantled the homeless camp along 135A Street in June 2018, only 160 people…
Canada’s federal $107 billion COVID-19 aid package props up banks on the backs of…
Canada’s $107 billion “COVID-19 Aid Package”, passed on March 20, is a slap in the face to every working and…
#Squat2Survive! Homeless communities must take over vacant buildings to escape…
For our communities to survive, we need to do what the government refuses: house ourselves by taking over abandoned…