Carnegie Community Action Project News Conference
When: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008 2:00 p.m.
Where: Meet at the front steps of the Carnegie Centre
Contact person: Wendy Pedersen, Organizer & Researcher, 604-839-0379
Homeless people are making do by sleeping out on a Cabinet Minister’s doorstep, but they want real housing so they can go to [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 12, 2008
Homeless make do by sleeping out on a Cabinet Minister’s Doorstep
November 5, 2008
The Soul of Vancouver book launch
With: Jean Swanson (CCAP), Kim Kerr (DERA), Bud Osborn, Sandy Cameron, Diane Wood, Stephen Lytton, X, Sharon Kravitz, Tui Hill, Ayisha Faruk, Mary Duffy, Leith Harris, Melissa Eror, Colleen Carroll, Rolf Auer, Phoenix Winter, Rudolf Penner, Kelly Stewart, Montana Hunter, Dan Thompson, Barbara Timperley, Tony Snakeskin & [...]
November 4, 2008
Over 600 Downtown Eastside residents are homeless
How many homeless people live in the Downtown Eastside? According to the official homeless count done last March, on March 11 there were 659 homeless people in the DTES, or 54 % of all the homeless people in Vancouver. Of these, 276 were in shelters and 383 were on the street or using a service. [...]
November 4, 2008
Rooms turned into offices at hotel above old Vic’s Restaurant
For some time, CCAP and the Carnegie Centre Community Association have been concerned about the use of Jay Rooms at 172 E Cordova Street.
According to the City of Vancouver 2007 Survey of Low-Income Housing in the DTES, the Jay Rooms has 12 closed residential hotel rooms.
Since March of 2008, people in our community have noticed [...]
November 4, 2008
Daily weekly use of rooms still a mystery
Pivot Legal Society made a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to find out which DTES hotels are renting by the day and week. Last month they got the info they requested, or, rather, 13% of the information they requested.
Under the Single Room Accom. bylaw hotels are allowed to rent out 10% of their rooms by [...]
November 3, 2008
Housing Justice Forum packs the house
Last Friday, about 150-200 crammed into the Women’s Centre (DEWC) to hear Carol Martin, Nisga’a Nation & Victim Services at DEWC, Anne Marie Monks and Kayla from Power of Women, Jean Swanson from CCAP and Nick Blomley from SFU talk about housing Justice. If you didn’t go, here is a summary of what was said.
After [...]
November 3, 2008
L I L A H C
L I L A H C
Low-income Land use And Housing Coalition
c/o Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House [DTES NH]
501 East Hastings [@ Jackson] Vancouver BC V6A 1P9
“Nothing about us without us”
motto courtesy of VANDU
Who we are
LILAHC is a coalition of those who live/work in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside [DTES] who affirm that the redevelopment of the DTES [...]
November 3, 2008
Sleeping out at Georgia and Thurlow
On October 6th a group of folks from the Citywide Housing Coalition had a sleep out at Georgia and Thurlow Downtown. We chose the site in front of the building that houses the government’s Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. This is the agency that’s responsible, or was responsible and should be responsible, for providing federal [...]
November 3, 2008
Burns Block to go “upscale”
On Sept. 16 City Council gave unanimous permission to the owner of the Burns Block at 18 W. Hastings to
redevelop the former SRO hotel into 30 self contained 275 ft. sq. units. The City also gave the owner $3.3 million (or $3.7 million if you count the fact that he didn’t have to pay the [...]
November 3, 2008
What if the DTES ceased to exist?
That’s the question asked of mayoral candidates at a recent debate.
Peter Ladner from the NPA replied: “That’s the only solution.” He noted the city policy to protect the existing housing stock and then said we need to “mix in some other kind of housing to normalize that neighbourhood.”
Gregor Robinson from VISION said: “I worry when [...]
