Gentrification
On November 13th, the City of Vancouver announced that it would launch a crackdown on street vendors in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The City’s...
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- Toxic drug crisis
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Emergency decade
Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters.
Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
- Housing
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
INTERVIEW | Inside the BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing
“This community has been a refuge against developer greed:” Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark
The Vancouver Tenants Union Wants To Teach Landlords a Lesson
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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- Toxic drug crisis
ABC Vancouver
With October’s municipal election approaching, organizers with the Vancouver Tenants Union advocate for firmer opposition to displacement from progressive city councillors.
Features
“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating”
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....
Chinatown
Chinatown might soon be the site of yet another high-end condominium development. The Beedie Group wants to build a 13-storey condo tower at 105...
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...
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...