BC Housing is planning to close down 46 units of low-income housing this week, as COVID-19 rates surge and hundreds, if not thousands, of BC renters face homelessness in the coming weeks with the end of the eviction moratorium in September.Nickerson Place, a two-year-old modular housing building…
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Tenants’ Struggles
“A Bold Step”? Burnaby’s social mix response to the Metrotown evictions crisis is…
On May 27th, 2019, Burnaby City Council unanimously voted to endorse a new approach to planning housing…
From Berlin to Burnaby: Tenants march against evictions and “rent madness”
On Saturday, April 6th 2019, Stop Demovictions Burnaby took to the streets of Metrotown once again to demand…
We beat Corrigan! Stop Demovictions movement stops Burnaby’s juggernaut…
As Hurley’s term begins, Stop Demovictions Burnaby’s work will intensify. While we must celebrate our movement’s…
Metrotown residents challenge anti-demoviction candidates to do “more than a…
On Thursday, October 18th, just days before the Municipal election, tenants facing demoviction and those fighting…
Turning walls into banners
Editors’ note: A statement by Stop Demovictions Burnaby was distributed at the July 1st paint-in in order to…
Regent Hotel eviction a loss for low-income DTES residents and a gain for serial…
A year after the Balmoral Hotel was shut down, the City of Vancouver has declared that its sister building, the…
The End of Mayor Corrigan’s Laughter: As Burnaby Council votes to demovict another…
At 11:30 pm on Tuesday May 29th 2018, immediately after Mayor Corrigan’s Burnaby City Council unanimously…
The Long Demoviction: Burnaby tenants speak out against a new breed of slumlord…
On Monday, May 28th tenants and supporters held a press conference outside their apartment building at 6508…
Tenants in Hamilton challenge the international capitalist class
On May 1st, International Workers Day, tenants in an apartment complex in Hamilton, Ontario, started a rent strike…