Let’s have housing justice at 58 West Hastings and recognize housing as a human right

For more than a decade, residents of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) have been fighting for housing justice to ensure that low-income residents are not displaced by constant rental hikes and gentrification. Uniting as the Our Homes Can’t Wait Coalition (OHCW), DTES residents and over 20 grassroots organizations have campaigned to raise public awareness on the … Read more

Rally to Ban Renovictions–Friday, Nov 9, at 12:15-1:15pm

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COPE announced our Three steps to a Rent Freeze plan at a campaign rally in September, where a tenant under pressure of renoviction named Travis and I smashed a “4% rent increase” piñata with a Rent Freeze bat. Remember the three steps? They were: 1) Stop renovictions, 2) Track all rent increases through a municipal landlord registry, … Read more

Why the landlord lobby is wrong about the 4.5% increase

COPE City Council Candidates- Jean Swanson, Anne Roberts, Derrick O'Keefe

Everywhere I’ve canvassed around Vancouver for the past two weeks, I’m meeting and talking to lots of people who are angry about the recently announced rent hikes. Renters in this city have had enough, and many homeowners also express their opposition to the hikes. But there’s at least one group supporting the latest hikes. Landlord BC … Read more

How unaffordable is the Metro Vancouver housing market?

How unaffordable is the Metro Vancouver housing market? What income you need to afford a Metro Vancouver detached house? We are sure that several years from now, sociologists and universities will write about the largest deception in history.  The deception that no one noticed UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.  They will write that one day … Read more

SEPTEMBER 2018 CONFERENCE: Homelessness Services Association of BC

HSABC is  hosting our first annual conference on September 19, 20, and 21st.  This exciting event will bring together over one hundred twenty-five service providers for three days of training, networking and sharing best practices and perspectives on issues facing the sector.   Join us for a robust program offering training, workshops, tours, facilitated plenary … Read more

Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) 2018 Report—Worst Year for Homeless [ 34 page Report]

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Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) 2018 Report March 12, 2018 Downtown Eastside Housing Crisis Worse than it‘s ever been VANCOUVER COAST SALISH TERRITORIES–2017 was the worst year for homeless Downtown Eastside (OTES) residents since the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) began doing annual housing and hotel reports in 2008. Last year 500 tenants were evicted … Read more

Homeless Conference Friday March 18 2018

https://www.stenbergcollege.com/event/bethechange/ Friday, March 16, 2018 SESSION 2: Homelessness 1:00 pm: The Real Causes of Homelessness JUDY GRAVES, Housing & Homelessness Advocate 1:15 pm: Causes and Solutions to Homelessness STEFANIA SECCIA, Journalist & Managing Editor, Megaphone Magazine 2:15 pm: 2017 Metro Vancouver Homeless Count DAVID WELLS, Dean, Vancouver Community College & Chair of Aboriginal Steering Committee … Read more

Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan and his draconian boiling from scheme

On Monday, July 24th 2017 Burnaby City Council will vote on its destructive “Metrotown Downtown Plan.” If this plan is approved, the entire Metrotown neighbourhood will be impacted: thousands of rental apartments will be demolished to make way for high-rise luxury condos, and thousands of current low-income and working class residents will be displaced. For … Read more

Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency and Taxpayers Money

After BChomeless.com discovered the “Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency” that are payed by the taxpayers we wonder if all that money they get would not be better spent for homeless shelters who need more spaces? Contact them and ask them. What are they doing with with our taxpayer money?  Housing becomes less affordable every year.  Yet … Read more

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION QUOTES

Many of you can see the corruption and favoritism (for the wealthy) coming from our government on all levels. As such we thought we would share some government corruption quotes; Parochialism is the state of mind, whereby one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context. More generally, it consists … Read more