The BC government says it’s the “largest single-year housing investment by any province in Canada,” $500 million for about 2,900 housing units across BC. But what does their announcement mean for the 1,000 homeless people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and thousands of other homeless…
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Cut the CRAP! Chinatown Concern Group fights Vancouver’s rezoning and…
City staff began preparing an update on the Chinatown Economic Revitalization Action Plan (CRAP) in October of last…
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…
Keep Warm, Burn Out the Warming Shelters
On Thursday, January 12th, Vancouver Parks Board entertained a motion to direct staff to suspend…
City launches more temporary housing on the eve of Quality Inn mass evictions
Vancouver’s first modular housing building, a housing model borrowed from mining companies, is set to open in…
Ross House tenants fight evictions, rent increases
"The manager bullied me and said “sign or you leave,” Humberto Macias-Carracas told people at a news…
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…
Cancelling the promised Maple Ridge shelter is part of a broader anti-poor…
Anyone who has driven Highway 7 east of Coquitlam since the summer will be familiar with the Ridgeilante…
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…