Who’s experiencing the real housing crisis? The homeless or young professionals?
Are young professionals who can’t afford to buy a single-family home in a similar “housing crisis” to…
Homeless Counts for What?
Every year since 2010 the City of Vancouver has counted its homeless residents. Around four hundred…
The Truth about Rent Subsidies: from British Columbia to the Section 8 program in…
By Sarah Sheridan, with a primer on Section 8 housing in the U.S. by Ivan Drury
In 2013, Housing…
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September 15, 2015
A grassroots reply to the City of Victoria’s “Sheltering Solutions”: The Needs of the Homeless…
Landlords and developers continue to lobby for tax cuts
During this year’s federal elections we have been hearing again from BC’s pro-developer lobbyists. This time…
Fight for Dignity – Abbotsford Homeless Await Court Decision
For 6 weeks this past summer, the Abbotsford chapter of the BC/Yukon Drug WaSurvivors and its team of lawyers…
Death by Cops on the Rise in BC
Despite new training programs, police are killing people at increasing rates in BC.
Over the past…
A grassroots reply to the City of Victoria’s “Sheltering…
On September 16, the City of Victoria will host a “Sheltering Solutions” workshop for the general public to help…
From the inside out – what we free ourselves from when we get rid of prisons
It is much like a classroom in a school on the outside with concrete walls painted off-white, long,…
Honouring Bea Starr
We are sad to note the loss of Beatrice Lucy Starr, wolf clan of the Heiltsuk from Bella Bella, who passed away…