In this essay Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton provide an overview of the historical evolution of government subsidies provided to Canada’s real-estate sector. State-backed financing and mortgage insurance for the big banks have cost the public billions over the course of several decades – but it’s not the only way to do housing.
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We are healthcare workers in so-called British Columbia, Canada who stand in solidarity and in grief with Palestinians and our medical colleagues in Gaza.
Healthcare worker collective Care Not Cops calls on the leadership of Vancouver’s health & social service organizations to break their silence on the genocidal violence against Palestinian people. After 40 days of death, BC Premier David Eby refuses to join the international calls for a ceasefire. The health and nonprofit sector have echoed this settler colonial complicity and abandonment of the global health community — all while hospitals are attacked, while thousands die, and while healthcare workers are killed in Gaza.
ABC’s decision to close Larwill Place will further exacerbate mass homelessness in the name of developer profits. It also signals the end of the Temporary Modular Housing experiment, dreamed up by planners more than a decade ago.