The City of Maple Ridge has chosen January, when the rains and winds of the west coast winter are at their worst, to take the residents of Anita Place tent city back to court in an effort to demolish their homes. Maple Ridge is not seeking an order to displace Anita Place tent city, but to arm City…
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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.
Homelessness and the Overdose Crisis are Designed this Way
Dwayne always tells me that he didn’t like me when he first met me. He says he couldn’t figure out what my angle…
“Pigs are not our friends”
Joe was one of the first people to move into Anita Place. He is a builder.
What’s the use in staying in housing if I can’t have the person I love there?
Mama Bear was a founder of Maple Ridge’s last tent city across the bypass from Anita Place on Cliff Avenue, which…
Making Anita Place
May 2nd marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Anita Place Tent City in Maple Ridge.