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King-mong speaking to residents On Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday this past week over a hundred people spoke at City Hall while city council deliberated...
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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
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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...
Downtown Eastside
On Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday this past week over a hundred people spoke at City Hall while city council deliberated over the Downtown...
City Hall
Kelvin Bee, Kwakwaka’wakw Aboriginal Front Door elder, his son Hank, and Victoria Bull, stand before Vancouver City Council on Saturday Photo by Erica Holt...
Downtown Eastside
Vancouver’s civic right wing, long hidden in the shadow cast by the Vision Vancouver goliath, is emerging cloaked in outrage against one part of...
City Hall
Last week, Vision Vancouver city councilor Geoff Meggs wrote an opinion piece for The Tyee claiming that City Hall is taking bold steps to...
Gentrification
On Wednesday, March 27, residents across the city joined together to walk 14.5km across Vancouver for Welfare Justice. The walk was organized by the...
City Hall
This week the City conducted its annual homelessness count. As usual, the count was conducted shortly before the closure of several emergency shelters. This...
Gentrification
Vancouver misses housing goals: ‘Report Card’ gives A+ for privatization and deregulation of housing
This week the City has released a Report Card evaluating its progress on housing and homelessness. The Report Card gives an A+ to Vision...
Homelessness
Credit: Vlastula on Flickr Public backlash yesterday against the City’s plan to increase fines on homelessness and street-vending to $10,000 caused the Mayor’s office...
City Hall
Should BC Housing subsidize a Downtown Eastside (DTES) condo developer when our neighbourhood has 850 homeless people and 3500 living in crummy hotel rooms...
