OPEN COMMUNITY MEETING

OPEN COMMUNITY MEETING
TUESDAY, MAY 27
2 PM – 4 PM @ VANDU (380 E. Hastings)
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Solidarity is powerful and can create change. Come strategize about what we can to do together about the housing crisis in the Downtown Eastside. Light snack will be provided. We’ll build upon ideas from 2 previous well- [...]

“affordable” spaces starting at $600,000…

Subject: Condo Development in the DTES

Attention :Alison Higginson, Project Facilitator, Development Services.
“”A growth process that benefits only the wealthiest minority and maintains or even increases the disparities between and within countries is not development. It is exploitation.”” (The Cocoyoc Declaration-1974)
Dear Ms [...]

One of the many letters you’ve written

Thanks for all your letters. Lora agreed to put the one below it on our blog. Thanks, Lora!
David McLellan
The Chair, Development Permit Board
c/o Alison Higginson, Project Facilitator, Development Services
453 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver BC
V5Y 1V4
Dear David McLellan,
The Downtown Eastside Housing Plan of 2005 recognized that our neighbourhood is a low income community. It called for revitalization [...]

Stop the Condos Slated for 58 West Hastings

Letter sent to the Development Permit Board by CCAP
To: Alison Higginson, Project Facilitator
Development Services
Alison.higginson@vancouver.ca
May 9, 2008
Stop the condo project slated for 58 W. Hastings
We have a number of points to make:
The Downtown Eastside, where this development is happening, is a real community of mostly low income people. We are not simply bedbugs, slumlords and drug [...]

Cameron Gray Gives Mayor and Council a DTES 101 lesson

May 1, 2008 City council meeting regarding the Downtown Eastside and the need for Mechanisms to control the rate of change and for a vision. The notes are here.