SROs emptied for hip housing, DTES residents left in the cold
The numbers from the 2014 Metro Vancouver homeless count are in. In one 24-hour period, 538 people in Vancouver…
We are poor because they are rich
Finally, the proof we have been waiting for. Most of us have long suspected that the government of BC was in bed…
A perfect storm: why the homeless count is no surprise
Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver had to put their public relations experts to work in April when they…
The funding cut & displacement agenda behind the PHS scandal
The Portland Hotel Society (PHS) is at the centre of a shit storm. The spectacle of the storm has captured all the…
No new social housing from the Province – 3 community views
These three articles outline the housing crisis in BC as it is worsening through government policy and market…
Bud Osborn, DTES poet, prophet, and activist (1947-2014)
As the DT East goes to press, we received word that DTES poet and activist Bud Osborn has died. Bud was a founding…
What do resource pipelines and building cranes have in common?
In colonial British Columbia, there is a lot riding on the answer to this question. The elites want us to think…
The social housing we fight for, the crappy housing we have (Downtown East poster…
Best Sildalist Pharmacy
Poster series: Design by Kathy Shimizu with text by Jean Swanson
Responding to the government apology for historic wrongs against Chinese British…
From November 17, 2013 until January 31, 2014, the BC government held public consultation sessions so that people…