Some residents in Dunbar, a neighbourhood made up predominantly of single-detached homes, are hoping that the incoming Vancouver City Council will put a moratorium on the building of laneway houses. The council approved a bylaw in July 2009 rezoning 94 per cent of the city, in the process allowing homeowners to build small homes located [...]
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 [...]
Five-hundred to 1,000 Vancouver youth sleep in the streets every night. Misha used to be one of them. Tonight the 16-year-old shares a muffin and cigarettes with her friends on a downtown sidewalk. They roll a joint as Misha tells her story. “My father has been using crack for forty years,” said Misha, “my mother [...]
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Dolly Cartwright, 82, lives with her sister on a monthly pension of $1,750 that has not changed her husband passed away. The funds are supposed to cover her property maintenance, food and transportation – in an area that includes one of the most expensive postal codes in Canada. For Cartwright, the funds are not enough [...]
The battle for the UBC Farm is seen as a test for democracy on the campus, as the university decides on how to develop this valuable land. The potential loss of the farm has spurred staff, students and aspiring politicians into action. The farm represents some of the last undeveloped property on the campus and [...]
Residents in the Dunbar area of Vancouver are raising questions about how a scheme to provide homes for people with mental illness could affect their community. Coast Mental Health Foundation wants to build an apartment building at 16th and Dunbar to house some 50 individuals with various mental illnesses. The foundation is aware that the [...]
Everywhere you look in Dunbar, you see the signs. On the window of the busy Bean Town coffee shop at 26th and Dunbar in Vancouver, a faded “help wanted” sign flaps each time someone opens the door. On the bus shelter at 41st, the Kokopelli Café has pasted its own plea for employees. “No experience [...]
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