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VANCOUVER - Herb Varley measures the transformation of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by the trendy cafes, upscale grocery stores and high-priced salons that are quickly creeping from the city's ...
In the poorest urban neighbourhood in Canada, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), gentrification has been on the move for decades. Plotting these new developments on a map of the DTES and walking ...
News Features. 10 years of police data reveals how gentrification has affected crime in the Downtown Eastside. Freedom-of-information legislation combined with in-depth data analysis shows how an ...
Neighbourhood activists decry the recent push to build condos and attract new businesses to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as harmful gentrification, but Vancouver's city council and the provincial ...
Downtown Eastside gentrification creating 'zones of exclusion' for residents: community group. Author of the article: By Chuck Chiang. Published Feb 22, 2017. 3 minute read. Join the conversation .
IN DEPTH: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside feeling gentrification squeeze; $1B Downtown Eastside plan raises concerns in Vancouver "[I] moved down here because of affordable housing.
Opinion: Resist the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside. Opinion: Proposed shift to the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan to enable market towers will increase speculation in the area ...
Here we go again. Vancouver city council is proposing a major shift to the Downtown Eastside local area plan by slashing social housing requirements and enabling market towers. But this isn’t ...
Anti-gentrification activists picketing outside Pidgin, a new upscale restaurant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, say they are protesting out of “peace and love” for the low-income ...
First & Spring: Eastside housing group under fire from gentrification foes The East L.A. Community Corp. converted the Victorian-era Boyle Hotel-Cummings Block near Mariachi Plaza to an affordable ...
In November 2015, protestors targeted a mixed-use housing development at 138 East Hastings, saying it is emblematic of gentrification issues that are pushing low-income people from the Downtown ...
A diverse group of Eastside residents discussed tough topics in downtown Charleston Monday night. Hot button issues included crime, gentrification and racial divides in the neighborhood. At the ...