DTES picketers, businesses trade bullying barbs
The anti-gentrification war in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is heating up after a group of nonprofits and businesses labelled protesters as “bullies.”
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Advocates call for ‘social impact’ assessments of new Downtown Eastside developments
The city should require low-income “social impact assessments” of all new businesses and condominiums in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver foreign investment panel tackles ‘safety deposit’ condos for wealthy
Downtown Vancouver may have the equivalent of nearly two-dozen 30-storey condominium towers sitting empty, serving as merely oversized “safety deposit boxes” for the wealthy, according to researchers. But blaming the city’s severe housing prices on absentee foreign investors could just be “this decade’s version of the Yellow Peril,” a UBC business professor has warned.
Creating Safer Sex Work: Can a new policing policy improve relations between police and survival sex workers?
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.
Symposium Shares ‘Down-to-Earth’ Fixes to High-Cost Housing
Vancouver event unites advocates, developers, architects, politicians and more.
Know your rights cards ‘prioritize’ sex worker safety, say advocates
Sex workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will soon be getting special wallet-sized cards educating about their rights with police, thanks to two advocacy groups — Pivot Legal Society and Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV).
‘Upscaling’ of DTES Eroding Low Income Housing: Report
Vancouver’s housing crisis worsened in the Downtown Eastside in the past year, according to a report released yesterday by an activist housing group, with fewer and fewer Single Resident Occupancy (SROS) rentals within reach of many residents’ budgets.
Happy New Year: Stories of 2012
Here’s a look back over some of my key stories of the last year.
Controversial Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau Calls for National Inquiry on Missing Women, Writes Support Song
Vancouver, B.C.’s nighttime streets were wet with fresh rain as a dozen members of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) community set out on what they dubbed a walkabout tour through the poorest off-reserve area of Canada, accompanied by Indian Country Today Media Network.
Photo: Vancouver Pride Society posts $76,000 deficit
Photo published in Xtra! newspaper
David P Ball 