Letter to the editor published in response to: Guaranteed Annual Income – the good, the bad, and the ugly: By Sarah Sheridan and Jean Swanson
I am so annoyed about the article in general and I felt patronized when I read the position that Sarah Sheridan and Jean Swanson take on a Livable4All…
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Yearly Archives
2016
Housing and sex work
Since the Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV) Society formed, we have been working for better…
Fighting Capitalism & Colonialism to Heal in Community – Our View on…
How do we soothe human pain? How can we best end the misery caused by isolation and alienation? For this…
Tenacious tenant undeterred by lack of enforcement action at Regent Hotel
The plot thickens at Vancouver's notorious Regent Hotel. The building has 153 single room occupancy (SRO)…
Responses to the overdose crisis must include an end to prohibition
People across Canada are continuing to die at staggering rates from illicit drug overdoses. Advocates have…
First Words from First Responders: On the Frontlines of Harm Reduction and the…
While governments make pronouncements and dither during the overdose public health emergency, who would you think…
S.O.S. at PHS
A report from inside Victoria’s first Portland Hotel Society-run “supportive” housing
In April after the…
Social work as social control
We can learn a great deal from the state responses to Super InTent City (SIC). In contracting the Portland Hotel…
Inside the jail of supportive housing
Since Canada’s federal government cut regular social housing construction in 1993, homelessness has become the…
Violence on the Surrey Strip is rooted in criminalization and dehumanization
Over the last month, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) has been holding organizing meetings on 135A Street in…