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City-Wide Housing March Sat July 26th 138 E Hastings, 1PM End the evictions, empower the people. Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish territories The housing crisis...
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- Essays
- Housing
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
Post-Mortem of a Failed Policy Fix: Temporary Modular Housing in Vancouver (2016–2023)
- Policing & Carcerality
- Toxic Drug Crisis
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
Empty detox beds do not fix the poisoned supply or keep people safe.
From the US Border to Whalley & the Downtown Eastside: Drug Bust Stories Should Never be One-Sided Celebrations
Surrey Union of Drug Users Opens Pop-Up Inhalation Tent in Whalley
News
Surrey Union of Drug Users is requesting that the province ensure supervised inhalation services match injection service hours at minimum. Inhalation is the route...
Housing
The Park Beach Tenant Collective, members of the Vancouver Tenants Union, and supporters gathered outside Plan A Real Estate Services’ offices in downtown Vancouver...
News
After a complaint was submitted to the National NewsMedia Council (NNMC), the National Post has settled on issuing a public clarification regarding one of...
Action
A building permit application made to the City of Vancouver in September 2022 reveals that landlord Andrzej Kowalski intends to replace the seven rental...
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...
News
Colonization is not only a past historical process of domination violently imposed on Indigenous people; it's a political and economic structure that continues to...
Analysis
Calling for a moratorium on migrant workers first, and then paying partial lipservice to some permanent immigration system is a de facto call for...
News
SFU Institute for the Humanities and The Mainlander Present: Policing the Crisis in Vancouver Tuesday, April 29th – 7:00pm Please note location change to...
Downtown Eastside
As an urban geographer, my research focuses on how certain cities around the world become models of best policy practice. Vancouver can rightly call...
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...
ABC Vancouver
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a...