You have to be old to remember this: we didn't always have a lot of homelessness in Canada.
When I worked at the Downtown Eastside Residents Association in Vancouver in the 70s we worked on getting a community centre open, stopping tax buyers from ripping people off, getting sprinklers in single…
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Housing Crisis & Struggles
The NDP won’t save renters
The situation for low-income renters in BC has never been worse. In 2012, with the Sequel 138 condominium at…
Worldviews – Urban Indigenous frontlines, experience, and survival
I am Sadie Morris, I am Nuu Chah Nulth and Irish and my daughter is Destiny Morris who is Nuu Chah Nulth,…
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…
Continuing the fight for Homes Not Jails
The political power of homeless people at Super InTent City won hundreds of new transitional and permanent…
Demovicted tenants need City defence, not assistance: Metrotown demoviction…
On Tuesday, March 28th, Stop Demovictions Burnaby organizers attended the city of Burnaby’s “Planning and…
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…
Federal government’s message to homeless people: get a good tarp and…
On March 22nd, the Federal government released the 2017 budget. The budget commits $11.2 billion to housing…
Mayor’s office sit-in nets Demovictions movement its first partial victory against…
On Thursday March 9th, myself and a group of activists with the Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign occupied the…