Out-of-the-box housing solution: Seven-storey recycled tower the next phase of a project too good to contain
Five months after launching its prototype, Atira aims for a seven-storey recycled tower.
Five months after launching its prototype, Atira aims for a seven-storey recycled tower.
Street nurse Bonnie Fournier is remembered as the “mom of the Downtown Eastside.”
Photo published in Megaphone magazine.
Standing alone under the bleak overpass by the Alexander Street railway tracks, DJ Joe holds up a small white card as a train rumbles by beyond a fence. A white car slides slowly by, and Joe clutches her arms for warmth from the chilly air. Her foldable, two-sided card would fit easily into the long-time sex worker advocate’s pocket or wallet. Thousands will be handed out to survival sex workers on the street and at support centres around the Downtown Eastside.