Update: On May 18, Kristina received a notice from Lookout Health and Housing Society, stating that her eviction has been rescinded. The notice gives no explanation for the decision to cancel her eviction, but Kristina thinks it’s a response to her resistance: she barricaded herself in her room and…
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Supportive Housing
The NIMBYs lost at Surrey City Hall last week, but who won?
A dozen homeless people and supporters rallied outside Surrey City Hall on Monday, July 22, calling for “Homes…
Busting Police Myths about the Clearance of the 135A Strip and Homelessness Today…
The truth about Surrey homelessness one year after the clearing of the 135A Strip is that homeless people and…
A victory in the fight to abolish supportive housing
At the end of May 2018, residents of the Johnson Street supportive housing building in Victoria won a…
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…
Gender Liberation Ain’t a Service Provision – trans antagonism within…
Trans women and sex worker communities are no strangers to the death and disappearance of our friends and comrades.…
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…
Continuing the fight for Homes Not Jails
The political power of homeless people at Super InTent City won hundreds of new transitional and permanent…
“The Hotel Study” – bad scholarship that could further…
A UBC psychiatry department report about SRO hotel residents was released in early August. This shocking report,…