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In the first of The Left Coast Post’s eight-part series on the November 19 Vancouver civic elections, we meet journalist Tristan Markle
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.
Turning the tide for affordable housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
With one of the highest urban Indigenous populations in the country, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become the site of a battle over rising housing prices, a lack of affordable lodgings, and encroaching up-scale development
Residents fight gentrified Downtown Eastside
A colourful annual march for safe, affordable housing in Vancouver was overshadowed by the death of an Indigenous woman, who fell from the sixth floor of her single-resident occupancy hotel room almost exactly a year after a similar suspicious death
Asbestos: Raven ThunderSky’s Struggle for Justice
WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg woman says the deaths of her whole family could have been averted had the government and mining companies come clean to the public about the dangers of asbestos
Homelessness: A view from the other side
VICTORIA – A growing coalition against poverty in British Columbia suggests that it is churches who must take the lead in humanizing our economic system to care for everyone
Young people struggle with spirituality and injustice
Camping on the old wood floors, we fell asleep to the sound of wailing downtown sirens and a man in the adjacent room snorting cocaine. But this squat is a kind of sanctuary – and sanctuaries are global
Build housing now, say downtown squatters
Following a wave of similar housing squats across Canada, from Toronto to Vancouver, activists occupied a Victoria building and hung a banner from the roof that read, “Build Housing Now”
Rising prices create housing crunch
SALT SPRING ISLAND, BC – Faced with major housing shortages, people looking for affordable lodging on Salt Spring are being forced to choose between homelessness and losing their support network
David P Ball 