The hundreds of refugees who pour into Vancouver every year will soon get a base unlike any they’ve had before — a one-stop housing, support, and services centre in the Commercial Drive heart of east Vancouver. The new $24-million Welcome House Centre, whose rezoning application was rapidly approved at Vancouver council recently, will provide 200 [...]
The timing of the provincial government’s decision not to fund four emergency shelters in Vancouver this winter, just a month before the municipal elections, put effectively yet another housing issue on the ballot. BC Housing, citing the most recent homeless count and a focus on supporting more permanent housing solutions, announced on Oct. 11 that [...]
Vision Vancouver’s proposal for an online apartment database is intended to pressure negligent landlords to clean up their act. But Downtown Eastside housing activists are worried that forced renovations in single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels could result in higher rents, evictions and a loss of low-income housing units. The proposed database is based on a successful model from [...]
Advocates of the Little Mountain social housing site and local MPs are calling on the B.C. government to stop selling off public lands as a strategy to fund social housing. The Community Advocates for Little Mountain (CALM) held a news conference at the site near Main and 33rd Street on Nov. 9. The date marked [...]
Occupy Vancouver in front of the Art Gallery. Occupy Vancouver has ended up being one of the most important issues in the run-up to the municipal elections, ranking right up there with housing in terms of what concerns the city’s voters the most. Its organizers view housing as one of the local arm of the [...]
As many as 20 people currently living on the streets of Vancouver’s west side will be moving indoors at the beginning of December. For many of them, the apartments at 17th and Dunbar will be the first home they’ve had in decades. Homelessness and housing are among the leading topics in this year’s municipal elections, [...]
The Little Mountain Housing Development, built in 1954, was the first public housing project in B.C. “In 1954, Canadians and governments at all levels had the foresight and resources to build 100 percent publicly-owned housing that provided affordable housing,” Don Davies, MP for Vancouver Kingsway, said at the CALM press conference. “Fast-forward to 2011, it [...]
