As ABC Vancouver works to transform the Downtown Eastside, the ruling party’s vision is taking shape, including more police, more market housing, a freeze on supportive housing, and more ...

Vancouver’s mayor and police chief trumpeted a plan Thursday to boost police funding with a specific focus on the Downtown Eastside. At a news conference Thursday at City Hall, Vancouver Police ...

A secret plan laid out by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s chief ... for allowing quick approvals of private development in the Downtown Eastside, facilitating the return of people to their home ...

More than a year after Vancouver city councillors voted for a plan to "uplift" the city's troubled Downtown Eastside, city staff delivered an update on the work. The 42-page report outlined a ...

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is facing a crisis as the number of emergency drop-in spaces for women experiencing homelessness, addiction and gender-based violence dwindles due to chronic underfunding ...

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a “humanitarian crisis” of crime and violence that has reached a tipping point, Mayor Ken Sim said as he unveiled a taskforce to ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has unveiled a plan to revitalize the city's troubled Downtown Eastside that includes pausing the construction of net new ...

The intersection of Main and Hastings streets in the Downtown Eastside. Vancouver's mayor says the region's supportive housing situation is not viable. (Ben Nelms/CBC) Advocates have opposed Sim's ...

1:50 Motion to ‘uplift’ Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside More than a year after Vancouver city councillors voted for a plan to “uplift” the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside, city staff ...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a "humanitarian crisis" of crime and violence that has reached a tipping point, Mayor Ken Sim said as he unveiled a ...

Palmer said Vancouver's index in 2023 was 97, Canada-wide it was 80.5, while in the Downtown Eastside it was 524. Sim said that the focus on crime "isn't just about public safety." ...