With a vacancy rate approaching zero, a fast dwindling rental housing stock, and low interest rates encouraging the growth of luxury condominium developments catering to babyboomer retirees and investors, renters (who represent 59% of all households in Victoria), are facing a housing crisis.…
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Gentrification & Displacement
No homelessness on stolen Native land? How demands for wealth redistribution can…
These days, a lot of thinking about how we organize our social movements is focused on the connections between…
Grassroots “Demovictions” Report Warns of Metrotown’s Collision Course with Mass…
By the end of the decade, every old low-rise apartment building on the square block around Dunblane Ave in Burnaby…
The Reality of Displacement in the DTES comic: By Debra McNaught
Comic by Debra McNaught
Court victory over anti-homeless bylaws!: By Pivot Legal Society and DJ Larkin
In late 2015 the BC Supreme Court ruled against the City of Abbotsford’s anti-homeless bylaws. Homeless people in…
Housing Insecurity and Uncertainty is the New Normal: An Interview with Sherry…
Sherry Chen, her husband David, and their two young children have lived in a one-bedroom apartment on Dunblane…
People at Downtown Eastside Town Hall meeting strategize to stop homeless crisis:…
A National Housing Crisis day, tent cities across the country, and identifying and working to get specific…
“Our work is a warning to other landlords” – Tenants fight to improve living…
Mohammad Valayati doesn’t want the same thing to happen to the residents of the Lion Hotel that happened at the…
Our generation’s fight for Chinatown: By the Chinatown Youth Coalition
Less than a year old, a coalition of youth organizations has made a noticeable impact in resisting rapid…
288 Hastings Wrong Model to End Homelessness: By Harold Lavender
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is being swamped by high impact gentrifying projects including at 288 East…