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In an area where over 13,000 people live in poverty having to survive on social assistance, gentrifying businesses are selling $138 mink eyelashes and $11 bottles of juice. Those are some of the findings of the Carnegie Community Action Project’s (CCAP)…
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Gentrification & Displacement
Go ahead displace me, you’re going to have to kill me to get me to stop fighting
Well to be quite honest I only recently came to know what DISPLACEMENT means. Being displaced is first of all…
The only way to survive is to break the law – Vancouver’s DTES Economic…
Over 13,000 people are on social assistance in the Downtown Eastside. 5,803 are on disability, 3,068 are on welfare…
Our veins run with water, not oil – fighting for our lives against…
In 1971, Eduardo Galeano published The Open Veins of Latin America. His iconic title refers to the colonial…
Hell No We Won’t Go – Demovictions, the end of social democracy, and the…
On the last day of January I knocked on Nick’s door to give him a pamphlet about his rights as a renter…
Homelessness is not a crime – Resistance to the criminalization of homeless…
In the week leading up to cheque day at the end of November, the Downtown Eastside had the highest number…
The class anxiety of Ridgeilantes: Uncovering the shared roots of homelessness and…
For those anti-displacement activists who showed up to support the low-income community at a BC Liberal-organized…
Rebuilding Hogan’s Alley through the Black community’s struggle for historical…
Hogan’s Alley was the only Black neigbourhood that existed in Vancouver’s history. Its official name…
Community media and the fight against gentrification in Medellin, Colombia
Translated by Gil Aguilar, with thanks to Nati Garcia
The city of Medellin, Colombia was built through…
Will fixed term leases erase 40 years of tenant organizing in the Downtown…
A boisterous crew was standing outside the Ross Hotel in Vancouver on New Years Day. We had called a news…