A new report from the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) says Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) could become an area full of condos and market rental apartments with homeless people blanketing the streets unless all three levels of government take immediate action.
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Lessons about “community inclusion” from the DTES Local Area Planning Process
In 2014, the city of Vancouver approved a new Local Area Plan (LAPP) for the Downtown Eastside after four…
Jack Gates wins Residential Tenancy Branch compensation
Jack Gates, a tenant leader at the Regent Hotel in Vancouver, and a member of the SRO Collaborative, won $1675…
Real Crisis, Fake Responses: Editorial
This issue of The Volcano circles around two main topics:
One: The ongoing, widespread Indigenous resistance and…
When “rights” are not enough – Lessons from Tent City Resistance
It felt like a major victory when, this spring, the courts refused to grant an injunction to the Provincial…
Tent-in Protest Overcomes Barriers to Services in Campbell River
The tents set up on the lawn of the Campbell River City Hall looked like a tent city, and the space served as a…
Solidarity between tent cities strengthens their political threat
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy: all well-housed people are alike; each homeless person is homeless in their own way.…
Rent Supplements Subsidize Landlords
How can governments maintain the scarcity of housing, keep renters in crisis, and subsidize people who don’t need…
Rental Housing Crisis in Victoria
With a vacancy rate approaching zero, a fast dwindling rental housing stock, and low interest rates encouraging…
No homelessness on stolen Native land? How demands for wealth redistribution can…
These days, a lot of thinking about how we organize our social movements is focused on the connections between…