Judge Sharma’s decision to refuse Vancouver’s application for an injunction to break up Ten Year Tent City was based on the testimonials of homeless campers. These testimonies expose the conflict between private property rights and the lives and wellbeing of low-income, working-class, and Indigenous…
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Anita Place tent city forging a new anti-poverty politics in Maple Ridge
Housed and homeless Maple Ridge residents marching together for housing and against hate
On Thursday May…
Rally calls for Maple Ridge to lift eachother up and reject bullying,…
A call to reject anti-homeless hate and come together to end homelessness
By Stephen Milner
My friends I want…
Four Principles for a Tent Cities Movement: Drafted at Super InTent City Victoria,…
Drafted by a convergence of homeless people from across southern BC who converged on Super InTent City Victoria,…
Founding Declaration of Anita Place Tent City, Maple Ridge 2017
We, the street population, are the heart and soul of Maple Ridge. We are taking unused City-owned land to…
BC’s real housing crisis revealed in Maple Ridge: Standing in solidarity with…
On Thursday May 4, I went to visit a tent city in Maple Ridge, which was erected a week before the BC election.…
City of Duncan uses courts to displace tent city sending homelessness back into…
On Tuesday April 18th, the City of Duncan won an injunction against homeless residents who are camped at Charles…
Shelter residents: ‘Closing shelters is a human rights violation’
Originally published on the CCAP website: http://carnegieaction.org
While the City Council is discussing a new…
Out of Control: SRO hotel survey finds that market real estate development and…
Homelessness in the DTES is a humanitarian crisis. For the first time in recorded history, the number of…
Stop Displacement! Save Whale Wall! Fighting gentrification-by-playground in…
On Tuesday, March 21st, activists interrupted a City of Victoria consultation process to protest the…