Crazy what you find in old binders in the back of dusty old cupboards. This article from 1995 is very revealing. The city’s plan for the DTES is to mix rich and poor, according to Sun reporter McLaren. In the cutline below the photo, it says that CCAP wants mixed housing at Woodwards. Back then, […]
“We really need a Starbucks on every corner.” “Gentrification is good because dumpster divers will get better stuff!” “There will be more people to rob!” These were some of the off-beat funny comments made at an intense community discussion at a Town Hall meeting in the Carnegie Theatre last week. But most of the discussion […]
November will be gentrification month in the Downtown Eastside. Gentrification is the process where richer people take over a neighbourhood from poorer people. It’s happened in hundreds of cities across the world and it’s happening in the DTES right now. In early November, CCAP will distribute 5000 copies of a newsletter called “Word of Mouth” […]
Vancouver city staff agrees with “many of the conclusions” of the Carnegie Community Action Project’s (CCAP) third annual hotel report, Pushed Out. Brenda Prosken is the deputy general manager of the community services group at City Hall. She wrote a letter to CCAP organizer Wendy Pedersen. The letter says, “The preliminary results from our own […]
October 4, 2010 Dear Mayor and Council, Re: new VPL branch at 720/730 East Hastings Street CCAP would like Mayor and Council to amend the staff recommendation for a “stand-alone” library at 720/730 East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside. Instead, we want Mayor and Council to do everything in their power to ensure the […]
“That was a dodge,” said Ivan Drury, resident of Strathcona, elected steering committee member of the DTES Neighbourhood Council, after Coun. Tim Stevenson made a motion at the beginning of the council meeting on Thursday Oct 7th to “look into” funding social housing on top of the new library on Hastings, but with “a catch”. […]
Ministry’s own service plans show few net new units since 2006 September 13, 2010 (Vancouver) Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives Press Release A new report shows that despite some positive recent developments on rental assistance and homelessness, BC’s progress in building new social housing units has been minimal. Unpacking the Housing Numbers: How Much New Social […]
by Wendy Pedersen On September 21st, I was invited to an interview on the CBC Afternoon Show with host Stephen Quinn about the results of CCAP’s hotel study. Coun. Kerry Jang was lined up to be interviewed after me on the same topic. I said that the most important thing the city can do to […]
Only 6 out of 42 rooms at the American Hotel will rent for $400 a month (for 10 years). Remaining rooms will rent for whatever the owner can get – possibly in the $700 range. That is what city councillors (except Coun. Ellen Woodsworth) voted in favour of at city hall last Thursday, September 23rd. […]
For immediate release September 21, 2010 Pushed out of the Downtown Eastside by high rents A new study by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) says that seniors on basic pensions and people on welfare can only afford 12% of the privately owned SRO hotel rooms in the Downtown Eastside (down from 29% last year). […]