The plot thickens at Vancouver's notorious Regent Hotel. The building has 153 single room occupancy (SRO) rooms renting at around $450-$550/month to mostly people on welfare and disability; and it is in deplorable shape. Tenant Jack Gates has been working with the SRO Collaborative, a new…
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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…
Chinatown and the collective struggle against displacement: By Jannie Leung 梁泳詩,…
Chinese Translation here: Translated by Godfrey Tang
The gentrification of Chinatown is a continuation of its…
唐人街和对被取代的集体斗争: By Jannie Leung 梁泳詩, Chinatown Action Group 華埠行動小組
English translation here: Translated by Godfrey Tang
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Trudeau just gave the go-ahead to the next Oka – Frontline Salmon Warrior…
The day after the Federal government approved the Pacific Northwest LNG project on Lelu Island, Chief Yahaan of…