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This past week newspapers reported on Vancouver’s high number of empty condos. The reports were based on new research by Andy Yan of BTAworks....
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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
Downtown Eastside
BC Rooms hotel, across the street from the proposed condos at 557 E. Cordova, was where MLA Jagrup Brar stayed during his welfare challenge...
Olympic Village
Up until recently, Pam Burge was one of the few remaining tenants in the city’s Olympic Village social housing on False Creek. Since moving...
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The Pidgin picket has pressured the city government to declare its stance on the gentrification of Vancouver’s most affordable neighborhood. City Councilor Kerry Jang...
City Hall
This week the City conducted its annual homelessness count. As usual, the count was conducted shortly before the closure of several emergency shelters. This...
Downtown Eastside
Photo credit: Tami Starlight DTES residents and allies from across the city vow to continue picketing Pidgin restaurant at Carrall and Hastings until it...
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Photo credit: Murray Bush, Vancouver Media Coop “There was no one in this building for as long as anyone can remember. Then we came...
Gentrification
Vancouver misses housing goals: ‘Report Card’ gives A+ for privatization and deregulation of housing
This week the City has released a Report Card evaluating its progress on housing and homelessness. The Report Card gives an A+ to Vision...
Gentrification
London’s 2012 Olympic Games housing legacy is undeniable. It is a legacy of evictions, displacement, gentrification and social cleansing. The ever-worsening housing crisis has...
News
This morning, anti-poverty activists protested inside NDP leader Adrian Dix’s office in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver. They say that the NDP has yet...
Downtown Eastside
Toxic Drug Crisis
