Tuesday Morning Paragraph – This Area is a Stronghold

Carnegie Community Action Project
401 Main Street, Vancouver, V6A 2T7
(604) 839-0379
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Dear Mayor & Council,
Why should we preserve the Downtown Eastside as a low-income community?
This area is like a stronghold
These are notes from CCAP mapping and visioning sessions recorded in 2008-2009.
“This area is like a stronghold. It’s a place that even though [...]

Tuesday Morning Paragraph – Social Inclusion

Carnegie Community Action Project
401 Main Street, Vancouver, V6A 2T7
(604) 839-0379
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Dear Mayor & Council,
Why should we preserve the Downtown Eastside as a low-income community?
To stop “social exclusion”
The city’s plan for the DTES is to encourage market housing and maintain low income housing. Woodward’s is a prime example. Here’s an excerpt of [...]

Tuesday Morning Paragraph – We Care About Each Other

Carnegie Community Action Project
401 Main Street, Vancouver, V6A 2T7
(604) 602-0379
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Dear Mayor & Council,
Why should we preserve the Downtown Eastside as a low-income community?
We care about each other.
These are notes from a CCAP mapping session at a housing co-op in the DTES:
“[This community] makes us feel human and that everyone is human. Someone [...]

CCAP goes to Mayor’s Roundtable

Mostly developers attended this Roundtable Discussion on how to build more Affordable and Rental Housing. The developers came up with all kinds of ideas about how to bring costs down so they can “afford” to build market rate rentals ($936/month for average 1 bedroom at market rate in Vancouver). Some of their ideas: [...]

Want to try out a mapping session?

The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) is doing more community mapping this month. It’s part of our work to get the information about what low income residents want in the DTES. Last month we did four informative and fun sessions at PACE. We also did sessions with the Carnegie Seniors and [...]

1 TOWER on top of Chinese Cultural Centre and 15 more TOWERS proposed

This was written by Jean for the Town Hall on Monday, April 27th for the city’s Historic Area Height Review.
The first thing I want to say is that Wendy and I and Andy, our planner at CCAP, were horrified when we saw the city’s Heritage Area Height Review (HAHR) documents. [...]

Tuesday Morning Paragraph – Sharing

Carnegie Community Action Project
401 Main Street, Vancouver, V6A 2T7
(604) 839-0379
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Dear Mayor & Council
Why should we preserve the Downtown as a low-income community?
Sharing: Many DTES residents are very community-minded. Low-income people know how to share, which is the basis of community development. When you have less, you exchange more. [...]

Tuesday Morning Paragraph – Social Innovation

Carnegie Community Action Project
401 Main Street, Vancouver, V6A 2T7
(604) 602-0379
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Dear Mayor & Council,
Why should we preserve the Downtown Eastside as a low-income community?
Social innovation: The Downtown Eastside has a lot to offer. Because low-income people have lived, worked and played together in the DTES for 100 years, we’ve learned a [...]