At a Downtown Eastside community meeting a few years ago, a woman stood up in the crowd assembled in the Carnegie Theatre and demanded that we stop using language she didn't understand. “Why say gentrification? These fancy $10 words just make it harder for the people to understand what you're…
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Gentrification & Displacement
Homes for All – Our Homes Can’t Wait (OHCW) Campaign Works for DTES…
So here’s the situation: Almost 1,000 homeless people have been counted in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of…
Three Pledges of Struggle: By Together Against Displacement & Dispossession…
Our Together Against Displacement and Dispossession summit packed three major accomplishments into one weekend,…
Chinatown and the collective struggle against displacement: By Jannie Leung 梁泳詩,…
Chinese Translation here: Translated by Godfrey Tang
The gentrification of Chinatown is a continuation of its…
唐人街和对被取代的集体斗争: By Jannie Leung 梁泳詩, Chinatown Action Group 華埠行動小組
English translation here: Translated by Godfrey Tang
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Abolish private property – How to bridge the home-ownership and home-less…
It is easy to say whether the home-ownership and home-less housing crises are the same. They are not. It…
Urban farming fight exposes gentrification, displacement, and colonization at core…
This summer, the City of Victoria wanted to change the Official Community Plan (OCP) to undermine urban…
Supporting the fight of Chinese seniors against gentrification – an…
Tell us a little about yourself
I'm Beverly Ho and I've been volunteering in Chinatown for a little over a year.…
New report confirms Demovictions are causing the Lower Mainland’s boom in…
An independent report released by Union Gospel Mission and the University of Victoria on October 12th…
The shifting sands of Foundation funding for social housing
An interview with King-mong Chan and Beverly Ho from the Downtown Eastside Our Homes Can’t Wait campaign for…