Vancouver mayor plans freeze on new supportive housing as part of Downtown Eastside revitalization bid
A plan to put a freeze on new supportive housing units in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is drawing criticism from those who live and work in the community.
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Vancouver faces court challenge over daytime ban on people sheltering in public spaces
The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) along with people who lived at the former CRAB Park homeless camp and on East ...
How these red ribbon skirts honour the memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Every year, volunteers gather ahead of the Women's Memorial March in Vancouver to sew 100 red ribbon skirts. Each one is ...
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Critics denounce Vancouver mayor's 'Trumpian' plan to 'integrate' Downtown Eastside
Critics have denounced Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's plan for revitalizing the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, with former councillor Jean Swanson calling his proposal to pause supportive housing ...
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Vancouver Canadian Charter challenge seeks to give homeless campers daytime sheltering rights
A lawsuit from the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) aims to prove that prohibiting people from sheltering in public spaces in Vancouver during the daytime ... Jason Rondeau has lived outside ...
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Homeless in Vancouver: City’s first snowfall of 2020 is a slushy taste of things to come
at Cypress Street and West 15th Avenue. The closest thing that the entire West Side of Vancouver has ever had to an actual homeless shelter was the 25-bed Extreme Weather Response (EWR ...
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Downtown Eastside activists fear 2016 will see a spike in Vancouver homeless
According to Jean Swanson, a volunteer with the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), the number of homeless people in Vancouver is ... Quality Inn at 1335 Howe Street could soon be out ...