In BC, the rapid expansion of harm reduction services has prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths during a 20-month period, according to a report from the BC Centre for Disease Control. There were 2,177 deaths during this period, but without overdose prevention sites, the number of…
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Drug Prohibition, Criminalizing Poverty, and Internal Displacement in the Lower…
Experiences from Alliance Against Displacement
On May 4th, 2019 the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users hosted…
It’s no secret that they want us gone: Vigilante arsons follow on the heels…
Within a week of the City of Maple Ridge cutting power and heat to Anita Place tent city and deploying dozens of…
Maple Ridge wins partial court injunction against Anita Place Tent City, but the…
On Friday February 8th, BC Supreme Court Justice Grauer released his judgement on the City of Maple Ridge’s…
The City of Maple Ridge argues at Supreme Court for the power to demolish homes at…
The City of Maple Ridge has chosen January, when the rains and winds of the west coast winter are at their worst,…
They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of…
The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the…
Women in Tent Cities are fighting back against patriarchy!
Women in tent cities are organizing themselves to band together and fight back against patriarchal violence. The…
Housing and health self-determination not re-institutionalization
On the evening of Tuesday, May 29, Maple Ridge City Council lined up with the mob of anti-homeless Ridgeilantes and…
Anita Place Tent City vision for self-determined homes and health care
200 Homeless People Need 200 Apartments to Decamp Anita Place
Maple Ridge Tent City announces negotiations with…
From Apartment Renoviction to Anita Place Tent City
I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.