Downtown Eastside
April of this year marks nine years since welfare rates – still frozen at $610 a month for a single person – have gone...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
- Housing
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
OP-ED | Make Holborn Pay for Loss of the Dunsmuir Hotel
‘Plan A, No Way!”: Tenants Rally Against Unfair Evictions, Surveillance, and Harassment
“Forget it, leave us here:” East Van Tenants Draw Crowd to Reject Eviction by Landlord Loophole
Understanding Canada’s State-Backed Real Estate Crisis
ABC Vancouver
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is obsessed with keeping the city’s Downtown Eastside on his tongue. The residents, the neighbourhood, the backdrop – the DTES...
ABC Vancouver
Introduction For more than two decades, the number of people living without a home in Vancouver has continued to climb. No level of government...
ABC Vancouver
This summer, City Council voted to demolish direly needed low-income housing in Vancouver’s downtown core. On July 12th, 2023, Mayor Ken Sim and the...
City Hall
On July 19, the City of Vancouver issued an email letter to Vancouver Coastal Health declaring the lease for Thomus Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site...
Homelessness
City-Wide Housing March Saturday Oct 10th Meet 955 E Hastings NOON, 12PM March for housing justice Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish territories Organized by the VANDU Tuesday...
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...
Homelessness
When they are pressed to comment on social housing and homelessness, most civic politicians pass the buck. It’s a Federal and Provincial responsibility, they...
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....
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...
Downtown Eastside
$25,000 lunch saga continues This week the provincial legislature debated whether to place limits on campaign contributions and spending in Vancouver civic elections, but...
Downtown Eastside
Karen Ward DTES Local Area Plan, Friday, March 14th I have represented Gallery Gachet on the LAP Committee. We are an artist-run centre, specifically a...
