When Coast Mental Health first took over operation of the Alouette Heights Supportive Housing building in 2018, they tried to convince the existing residents to sign away their tenancy rights with a new housing agreement. Many tenants refused. Now Coast is trying again.
Mike moved into Alouette…
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Bowing to protest, Coast Mental Health drops its unlawful guest ban in Maple Ridge…
On Wednesday December 2nd, a group of residents of Coast Mental Health-run supportive housing buildings held a…
Lying cops, abusive staff, and needed housing: Life in and out of Surrey’s…
BC Housing is planning to close down 46 units of low-income housing this week, as COVID-19 rates surge and…
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 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…