Including articles: Bailouts for consumers, starvation for the poor; Poor women respond to Trudeau’s $40 million for women’s shelters; The problem with BC’s $300 welfare bonus; A Black Indigenous woman’s struggle for home, family, and safety; Prisoner death in custody at Mission Correctional…
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Housing Crisis & Struggles
Inside the Hothouse Squat
It was a small walk from our meeting point to the squat, and we all walked in small groups to respect the COVID-19…
Squat 2 Survive Bulletin, Number 1
Including articles: RCMP evict Surrey’s hothouse squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive movement; Founding…
RCMP evict Surrey’s Hothouse Squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive…
On April 1st 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of poor and homeless people and supporters took…
Gentrification and COVID-19: Fast-tracking the death of Surrey’s poor
When the City of Surrey forcibly dismantled the homeless camp along 135A Street in June 2018, only 160 people…
#Squat2Survive! Homeless communities must take over vacant buildings to escape…
For our communities to survive, we need to do what the government refuses: house ourselves by taking over abandoned…
Canada’s “Best Tenant Assistance Policy” allows Mayor Hurley to…
After fulfilling his election promise of implementing a 6-month moratorium on rezoning and demolishing apartment…
Governing the dangerous poor: Vancouver City Council uses the displacement of…
According to part-time camp resident and public advocate Chrissy Brett, there are 115 tents and around 200 people…
Homelessness is nothing for Canada’s progressive political parties
If Canada’s 2019 federal election was a Shakespearean play, it would be MacBeth: a tale told by an idiot, full of…
Sinophobia in Canada: Attorney General David Eby and the Vancouver housing crisis…
SFU Student Rose Wu has written a poignant commentary about the anti-Chinese racism that has come to underscore…