The month of March marks one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Both American and Canadian governments proved unable to manage the pandemic, leaving millions of people stuck in risky jobs or out in the streets with little protection from…
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Back into the gully: What the end of CERB means for the poor
This year… we don't really have to mention how crazy the world's been, do we?
Suffice to say, some spin doctors…
Surrey renter faces eviction through BC’s state of emergency “health and safety”…
Evicted During COVID-19
Michelle Leggeh called us at the end of April, after her husband brought home our…
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 story of Cloud City and the problem with BC’s $300 welfare bonus
Once there existed two societies in a place called Cloud City: Upper and Lower. Upper was “enlightened”: learned…
“I believe in the future”: A Black Indigenous woman’s struggle for home, family,…
Karen Juanita Lane is a long-time activist and resident of the DTES who reached out to Red Braid in March to ask…
Poor women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside respond to Trudeau’s $40…
On April 4th, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $207 million COVID-19 aid package for homeless…
Inside the Hothouse Squat
It was a small walk from our meeting point to the squat, and we all walked in small groups to respect the COVID-19…
RCMP evict Surrey’s Hothouse Squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive…
On April 1st 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of poor and homeless people and supporters took…
Gentrification and COVID-19: Fast-tracking the death of Surrey’s poor
When the City of Surrey forcibly dismantled the homeless camp along 135A Street in June 2018, only 160 people…