The first public presentation of the People’s Plan for the development of Metrotown took place outside of Metrotown Library on January 16. While city staff inside the library displayed their pretentious “Draft Metrotown Downtown Plan,” members of Stop Demovictions Burnaby (SDB) set up…
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Tenants’ Struggles
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…
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…
Burnaby Mayor blames immigration for his mass displacement development plans
The scene at Burnaby City Hall was a predictable one. More than two-dozen people rallied in the lobby…
Hell no we won’t go! Refuse the laws that demovict us
We are here today because we don't want our homes demolished. The city says it's not its responsibility…
The City of Burnaby can demovict the plan! By Erika S, resident facing demoviction…
Here we are - in the epicenter of the ‘mass slaughtering’ of a viable neighbourhood, Burnaby’s Metrotown Rental…
Report back: Burnaby Metrotown community’s mass mobilization against…
On November 12, 2016, Metrotown residents rallied and marched with the Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign against…
Policies inconvenient for developers have been cut from the proposed Metrotown…
I want to once again acknowledge that we are standing on the unceded, shared territory of our neighbors, the…
Demo-victions in Metrotown and a new anti-displacement movement
The housing crisis in BC has many faces. It is most starkly visible in the homeless camps that have caught…