Gabor Maté: ‘Organized insanity’ for doctors to ignore health, poverty link
Can social inequity cause sickness? Vancouver’s Dr. Gabor Maté thinks so.
Tag Archives: Poverty
#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?
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
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
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 