City staff began preparing an update on the Chinatown Economic Revitalization Action Plan (CRAP) in October of last year, which included two open houses for the public to share feedback regarding the proposed changes. As per usual with consultation processes, the City failed to notify residents in…
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Gentrification & Displacement
Metrotown Downtown Plan versus the Metrotown People’s Plan
The first public presentation of the People’s Plan for the development of Metrotown took place…
BC’s broken Residential Tenancy system adds insult to demoviction in Burnaby
On July 1, 2016 Martin Lenin Fernandez, his elderly mother, and two young sons were evicted from a…
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…
Organized destruction – CMHC data reveals the City of Burnaby is…
A reporter from Metro News contacted me to get my reaction to a graphic illustrating the change in numbers of…
The Housing Crisis and Anti-Asian Racism
This is an edited version of a talk delivered at “The Housing Crisis is Global: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on…
Canada is not our only enemy – An anti-colonial perspective on foreign…
This is an edited version of a talk delivered at “The Housing Crisis is Global: Anti-Imperialist…
Foreign investment is not a working class issue – Universal housing to…
This is an edited version of a talk delivered at “The Housing Crisis is Global: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives…
Criminalization of homelessness continues as Thornton Park tent city forcibly…
Around 9:30 am on the morning of November 25, 2016, police arrested seven people at the new Thornton Park tent city…
Tent City Residents Displaced from 58 W Hastings Move to New Site
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
This evening, residents of the 58 W. Hastings tent city were ordered…