Housing Crisis Town Hall with MLA’s Dave Eby and Melanie Mark

Housing Crisis Town Hall with NDP MLA’s Melanie Mark and David Eby

When: 6:30-8:30pm, Wednesday, December 14th
Where: Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Street

We have an unprecedented housing crisis for low-income people. Come to a Our Homes Can’t Wait town hall on December 14th and help put housing and homelessness on the election agenda.

This year saw record high homelessness in the Downtown Eastside, with over 1000 people living on the streets and in shelters in our neighbourhood. The Downtown Eastside is now scattered with tents and smaller tent cities, as people struggle to survive without homes, shelter and on abysmally welfare rates. As a result of government inaction and the criminalization of , homelessness, homeless people have half the life expectancy of other BC residents.
Housing Crisis Town Hall with NDP MLA’s Melanie Mark and David Eby

When: 6:30-8:30pm, Wednesday, December 14th
Where: Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Street
The Provincial election is coming up this spring, but we still don’t know what opposition parties like the NDP will do to address the u
The recent housing announcement by the provincial government would only house about 100 more low income people in the Downtown Eastside, if rents in all the new units are at welfare/pension rate. At the same time, we continue to lose SRO hotel rooms as gentrification pushes up rents. This year the city’s lease on the Quality Inn will also expire, effectively removing 157 rooms from the affordable housing list.

The housing crisis has never been worse, and we need all political parties to commit to real measures to address the housing crisis. This includes rent control, 10,000 social housing units per year with at least 10 social housing sites in the Downtown Eastside and measures to improve and save the SRO hotels in our neighbourhood.

Accessibility: the building entrance, theatre room, and washrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Organized by Our Homes Can’t Wait

The town hall is taking place on the unceded coast salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Wauthuth) and Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) peoples.