I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.
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Tenants’ Struggles
Mobilizing the Frontline of the Eviction Crisis
In the summer of 2017, Burnaby City Council passed a development plan for the Metrotown neighbourhood.
Open letter to John Horgan: Cut Anne Kang and stand with the People of Metrotown
Dear John Horgan, leader of the BC NDP,
On Tuesday April 11th, a group of housing justice activists with…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Creating Temp Tenants – Burnaby’s demoviction tenant assistance policy…
The ‘eviction’ part of a demoviction is a long process that starts long before a developer-landlord signs the legal…
Hell No We Won’t Go – Demovictions, the end of social democracy, and the…
On the last day of January I knocked on Nick’s door to give him a pamphlet about his rights as a renter…
Will fixed term leases erase 40 years of tenant organizing in the Downtown…
A boisterous crew was standing outside the Ross Hotel in Vancouver on New Years Day. We had called a news…