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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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
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
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“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
OP-ED | Make Holborn Pay for Loss of the Dunsmuir Hotel
‘Plan A, No Way!”: Tenants Rally Against Unfair Evictions, Surveillance, and Harassment
Gentrification
“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating,” shares Nikki, a tenant living with her family in the...
Class Struggle
Local landlord Andrzej Kowalski is attempting to sue the Vancouver Tenants Union in Small Claims Court claim for $35,000.
Housing
On the evening of April 5, 2023, as the first day of the Hastings decampment operation came to a close, Vancouver Mayor Ken...
ABC Vancouver
On Dec. 18, Vancouver City Council approved the demolition of the Dunsmuir Hotel, a single-room occupancy building with 167 units at the corner of...
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...
City Hall
Today, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Library broke ground on a new library in Strathcona. The new VPL branch includes...
Downtown Eastside
Yesterday, November 21st, was the national day of action on housing, with events and actions happening across the country. As part of this movement...
City Hall
During this campaign Vision Vancouver has promoted their affordable housing record. But the numbers aren’t real. They’re not even half real. It's upsetting because...
City Hall
"Forget the issues, our politicians are now brands," BC Business Magazine (November 2014) p. 58 This election season, Vision Vancouver and the Non Partisan...
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...
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,...
Housing
“The Bird Sanctuary” is the name tenants have for the third floor room of the Clifton Hotel where an unsealed window opens the way...