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The Streetohome Foundation has officially launched its new Rent Bank program with a $366,000 three-year loan from Streetohome board member Frank Giustra of the...
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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...
City Hall
This article was originally posted on thecityfm.org Mayor Gregor Robertson’s Task Force on housing affordability avoided using Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) definition...
History
Yesterday Vision Vancouver released its final report on Housing Affordability in Vancouver. Shortly after being elected for a second term, Vision created an Affordability...
Homelessness
Vancouver has a long history of playing shell games with homeless shelters. Shelter residents have created the term “shelter shuffling” to communicate the harsh...
City Hall
Photograph of shopping-cart demolition last year, June 25, 2011. The VPD prohibits the demolition of a homeless persons’ property under the Abandoned Property Policy,...
Homelessness
The already dire housing crisis in Vancouver is about to worsen with the mass expiration of funding and operating agreements for twenty-five thousand social...
Downtown Eastside
DTES Community organizing against Sequel 138 condos shows united opposition to displacement by gentrification. The date is looming for the City’s Development Permit Board...
Downtown Eastside
UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORY, VANCOUVER: On Tuesday April 10th more than 100 Downtown Eastside residents gathered for a rally in the theatre of the...
City Hall
Three dozen seniors living on fixed incomes in the Lions Manor building at 6th and Main have been served with a 45% rent increase....
Downtown Eastside
The Mainlander is featured in the civic politics segment every Tuesday morning between 7am-8am on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 This Tuesday Dec 20 2011, The Mainlander’s Sean...
