A report from inside Victoria’s first Portland Hotel Society-run “supportive” housing
In April after the government hired Portland Hotel Society (PHS) to manage Super InTent City, SIC Society met with PHS to clarify their role at the camp. At this meeting, we told PHS about the abuse we’ve…
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Housing Crisis & Struggles
Social work as social control
We can learn a great deal from the state responses to Super InTent City (SIC). In contracting the Portland Hotel…
Inside the jail of supportive housing
Since Canada’s federal government cut regular social housing construction in 1993, homelessness has become the…
Violence on the Surrey Strip is rooted in criminalization and dehumanization
Over the last month, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) has been holding organizing meetings on 135A Street in…
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…
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…
Vision Vancouver fights for the power to remove homeless people from downtown…
Why is Vancouver’s Vision dominated city council going to court to defend an attack on homeless people started…
Dispatches: Is Surrey punishing homeless protesters?
Dispatches
Dispatches is a new column in The Volcano newsletter. Here we will publish brief, first-person…
Surrey Steals from the Homeless and We Won’t Take it Anymore: By the Editors
An hour before “Surrey Steals from the Homeless” demonstration was set to start on Monday October 3rd, the…