Out-of-the-Box Housing

It’s been a few years since shipping containers were hailed as the next big thing in low-cost housing. But in the new issue of Megaphone out today we take a look at whether Vancouver’s first container project has the goods to keep people safe and happily housed.

Out-of-the-Box Housing: Less than one year after housing 12 low-income women in B.C.’s first shipping container project, Atira Women’s Resource Society wants to build more low-cost, high quality container units for Vancouver’s vulnerable.

Street Fighter: The video of a man on Granville Street offering panhandlers money in exchange for physical assaulting them is just one of many signs violence against people experiencing poverty is on the rise.

Striving for Success: A new pilot program from the Ministry of Children and Family Development and YWCA Metro Vancouver offers youth aging out of foster care a hand up to reach their goals.

All You Need Is Love: Megaphone vendor Ron McGrath ruminates on the importance of love for yourself and your community.

Plus: Support for the Sochi Olympics is hard when you look at Vancouver’s Olympic legacy; Megaphone vendor Garvin Snider argues for a healthier home base for low-income people to start from; the province’s new liquor strategy will increase alcoholharm, but acknowledges and addresses those health implications; and much more!

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