West End town hall opposes Comox tower
City council to vote on development proposal June 11.
Tag Archives: Housing
In more than a decade of journalism, one of my enduring interests has been housing, real estate and homelessness.
In 2013, I began a year-long reporting project exploring solutions to the affordable housing crisis in B.C. for the Tyee Solutions Society, investigating rental, social housing, and homeownership. I have been covering housing issues regularly since I first slept overnight in a squatted abandoned building for a Martlet newspaper feature in 2003.
Below are some samples from my housing portfolio.
Vancouver’s arts and culture bleeding out in “steady migration”, warn city creatives
Underneath the vibrant, diverse surface of a thriving arts and culture scene, Vancouver faces a loss of its brightest painters, dancers, designers, makers and performers to greener pastures. VO investigates how rising real estate prices are crunching our city’s artists.
City Hall protest against DTES condos: ‘Rich get rich, the poor get pushed around’
Downtown Eastside organizers will rally at Vancouver’s City Hall again today against Sequel 138, condos proposed at the heart of Canada’s poorest urban neighbourhood, which are being voted on at 3 pm.
#Attawapiskat housing crisis heats up, from Parliament Hill to Twitter
While B.C. indigenous leaders protest in Ottawa, applauding Attawapiskat chief, Vancouver ‘twittivists’ took the Native housing fight online.
Homeless shelter clients, staff ‘frustrated’ with city enforcement
Homeless shelter asks: No room at the inn for Mary and Joseph?
Housing activists take over Hastings condo site
Paris Annex condos got some unexpected occupants today.
#VanElxn: Confronting Vision’s ‘Creative City’: Evictions, gentrification, developers
The Left Coast Post looks beyond the election: can you back Vision Vancouver and not back gentrification?
Occupy Vancouver affordable housing march decries rising prices, condominium developers
Nearly 150 demonstrators from Occupy Vancouver held a protest for affordable housing Saturday, protesting upscale developments they said are causing rising prices
Mayoral homelessness debate a sham: DTES residents
As Mayor Gregor Robertson faced his main election opponent in a tense homelessness debate tonight, residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) in attendance called the debate a sham
Mayoral homelessness debate: Photograph
Mayor Gregor Robertson and Councillor Suzanne Anton speak to the congregation at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church
David P Ball 