Canada’s housing crisis exposes and carries on colonial legacies by disproportionately impacting Indigenous people in Canada. In rural settings and urban centres, Indigenous people experience overcrowding and illness from poorly constructed homes, and racism and discrimination when seeking and…
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Surrey preparing to “make homelessness illegal” after shuttling the 135A Strip…
Politicians are celebrating the news that the 135A “Surrey Strip” is going indoors as social workers have begun…
“We don’t have the right to be here but we have the power”
The City of Nanaimo set the morning of Tuesday May 29th as the deadline to obey a trespass order they served to…
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…
Arrests in Nanaimo as homeless campers resist an attempt by RCMP and the City to…
Five residents and supporters from Nanaimo’s DisconTent City were briefly arrested in the morning of Tuesday, May…
Discontent City’s space of resistance provides relief for homeless people besieged…
On Thursday, May 17, 2018, a new tent city emerged in an unused city lot on the port lands above the railway tracks…
DisconTent City Founding Declaration
"We homeless, low-income communities are the heart and soul of Nanaimo. "
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…