Gentrification
City-wide housing march, July 16th 2014 This Sunday an unusual Affordable Housing Rally will be held at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The stated goal...
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ABC Vancouver
This past Saturday, June 17, Mayor Ken Sim launched “Vancouver Beautification Day,” a new city-wide event dedicated to fighting graffiti and vandalism on...
Analysis
Mainlander editor Nate Crompton sits down with Jean Swanson to discuss the loss of affordable housing in the Downtown Eastside and across Vancouver....
Action
April 14, 2023: This week marks one year since the tragic fire at the Atira-operated Winters Hotel. The fire, which occurred on April 11,...
Downtown Eastside
March 2023: Vancouver, Downtown Eastside The PHS Drinkers Lounge Community Managed Alcohol Program has at last installed a brand new parklet for drinkers in...
Gentrification
On mornings when I open the café, I walk about fifteen minutes down Kingsway towards its awkward intersection with Main. While not very scenic...
Downtown Eastside
WEST VANCOUVER, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES: On Wednesday August 6th, Downtown Eastside residents evicted from gentrified hotels, Oppenheimer homeless campers, and housing advocates held...
Gentrification
This weekend, several hundred people took to the streets in Vancouver to highlight the housing crisis and protest against corporate housing policies. In 2014,...
Downtown Eastside
Editors’ Note | Tomorrow, Sunday morning at 7am, the Mayor’s Encampment Committee is going to try to evict the tent city at Oppenheimer park....
Analysis
St. Ehlmo hotel, photo credit: Susannah Anderson On May 31st, 2014, another Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) was sold...
Downtown Eastside
Editor’s note: William Damon will be speaking at Policing the Crisis in Vancouver, an upcoming event co-organized by The Mainlander and SFU’s Institute for...
Downtown Eastside
Eugene McCann. DTES Local Area Plan, Friday, March 14th My name is Eugene McCann. I am a professor of urban geography at Simon Fraser...
City Hall
Chelsea Inn under threat Residents of the Chelsea Inn, a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) staged a demonstration outside of...
Gentrification
When Dave Rouleau and Monika Benkovich accepted a position from Living Balance to manage 36 SRO (Single Room Occupancy) units in the York Rooms,...
