Introducing Movement Questions: This section of The Volcano looks at the analysis and strategies for action taken up by social movement organizations. We hope by making space for organizations to explain what they think and how they fight, we can strengthen dialogues, collaboration, and actions…
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Gentrification & Displacement
Will junking public ownership of BC Housing make things better for low income…
The BC Government is selling about 350 parcels of land and 9 public housing buildings that it owns and operates.…
Mining and Gentrification
The mining company Tahoe Resources is currently being sued in a Vancouver court by seven Guatemalan men who allege…
Boom, Bust, and No-Go – Development on BC’s North Coast
Vancouver is blanketed in signs advertising new condominiums - new and better lifestyles! - and on city blocks…
Brief reflections on community displacement and the strategy of “Touching the…
Developers see the Downtown Eastside (DTES) as a gold mine of development potential. The city government wants…
One last chance to save the SRO Hotels
Vancouver’s Single Room Accommodation (SRA) Bylaw has been in place for over 11 years and has proven…
Asserting Our Rights – Oppenheimer tent city challenges the limits of…
On July 10 organizers of the tent city at Oppenheimer Park put the City of Vancouver’s empty words to the test.…
Lippmanopoly! (anti-gentrification art poster)
By Kathy Shimizu, with articles by Blair Hewitt and Jean Swanson
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…
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…