Lippmanopoly! (anti-gentrification art poster)
By Kathy Shimizu, with articles by Blair Hewitt and Jean Swanson
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Victory at Chau Leun Tower!
Victory! With the support and work of DJ Larkin from Pivot Legal Society and MPA advocate Stephanie Smith, the…
Sun Tzu (The Art of War) & the DTES Local Area Plan
How can an ancient Chinese text and the Local Area Plan (LAP) be connected? Well for starters, I read the book…
DTES Local Area Plan – What did we get? What did we lose?
Vancouver has approved the DTES Local Area Plan. What will be its positive and negative effects? Was it worth the…
SROs emptied for hip housing, DTES residents left in the cold
The numbers from the 2014 Metro Vancouver homeless count are in. In one 24-hour period, 538 people in Vancouver…
We are poor because they are rich
Finally, the proof we have been waiting for. Most of us have long suspected that the government of BC was in bed…
A perfect storm: why the homeless count is no surprise
Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver had to put their public relations experts to work in April when they…
The funding cut & displacement agenda behind the PHS scandal
The Portland Hotel Society (PHS) is at the centre of a shit storm. The spectacle of the storm has captured all the…
No new social housing from the Province – 3 community views
These three articles outline the housing crisis in BC as it is worsening through government policy and market…
What do resource pipelines and building cranes have in common?
In colonial British Columbia, there is a lot riding on the answer to this question. The elites want us to think…