Housing
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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
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...
Housing
On June 11 2024, tenants from the Park Beach Tenant Collective (PBTC), members of the Vancouver Tenants Union, and supporters gathered outside Plan A...
Action
Terry McIntosh has lived at 1171-1177 East 14th Avenue in East Vancouver for 26 years. A botanist by training and vocation, McIntosh maintains a...
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...
City Hall
The City’s developer task force released another interim report today — a follow-up to the previous very preliminary interim report (see The Mainlander‘s analysis...
City Hall
The Georgia Straight recently published a cover story titled “Sullivanism versus Jane Jacobs”, detailing former NPA Mayor Sam Sullivan’s continuing efforts to push high-rise...
History
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION| The first part of Nathan Crompton’s three-part essay introduced the history of anti-asian racism in Vancouver, while the second part focused on...
City Hall
On May 7th the Development Permit Board (DPB) approved the application of a 10 storey luxury development in Chinatown. The project, financed by Solterra...
City Hall
This past Monday, April 23rd, all three voting members of the Vancouver Development Permit Board (DPB) voted in favor of the ‘Sequel 138’ condo...
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...
COUNTERPOINT
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION | Since publishing Part I of this three-part series, other publications have followed suit, with similar columns appearing in the Vancouver...
