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November 12, 2013

On low-income “voice”, “ghettos” and neighbourhoods for profit: A response to the Inner City Neighbourhood Coalition’s submission to the City on “Emerging Directions”

Carnegie Community Action Project City Planning, Community, Gentrification, Poverty, Social Justice Zone

November 12, 2013 Submission to DTES Planning Staff, City of Vancouver From the Low-Income Caucus (LAPP Committee Members) and the Carnegie Community Action Project Contact: Tamara Herman, tamaraccap@gmail.com, Carnegie Community Action Project RE: The Future of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) as a Low-Income Neighbourhood: A Response to the Inner City Neighbourhood Coalition submission In early […]

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August 8, 2013

DTES Residents Speak out on Draft Local Area Plan: Town Hall Meeting Report

Carnegie Community Action Project City Planning, Community, Gentrification, Social Housing, Social Justice Zone

On July 16th and 23rd 2013, DTES low-income residents gathered at the Carnegie Community Centre to go over and talk about “Emerging Directions“, the City’s draft Local Area Plan for our neighbourhood. The critical question? “Are they abolishing homelessness or abolishing the homeless?” Read the CCAP Emerging Directions Town Hall Report and find out what […]

July 18, 2013

“Emerging Directions” in the DTES: A Recipe for Displacement

Carnegie Community Action Project City Planning, Community, Gentrification, Social Housing

What’s the LAP and where did “Emerging Directions” come from? If you’ve been in the DTES over the past few days, you might have seen posters for the Local Area Plan (LAP), “Emerging Directions” and the city’s open houses. The LAP for the DTES is a development plan whose purpose is “to ensure that the […]

April 15, 2013

For the Love of Our Community

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By Tracey Morrison Originally published in the Downtown East newspaper April 2013 I’m from Morson, Ontario, near Minnesota close to the Manitoba border. I’m from the Ojibway Nation from Big Grassy reserve. I’m adopted. My uncle and aunt adopted me and my siblings– six of us from the same biological parents. My real dad and […]

September 14, 2012

What do Downtown Eastside Residents have in common?

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What do you think is the main thing that DTES parents like about the DTES community? When CCAP asked a group of sex workers this question, they guessed things like “the school,” and “the playground.” When they learned that the top thing parents like about their community is: “Kids learning compassion and kindness towards others […]

July 5, 2010

New CCAP Report: Assets to Action: Community Vision for Change in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

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Click the image to go to the report.

November 30, 2009

Seeing It Our Way

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Click here to read “Seeing It Our Way” – the DTES visioning draft report from CCAP (.pdf) Here for more CCAP Reports

October 28, 2009

Don’t rely on outsiders to organize your community

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A famous community organizer came to the Downtown Eastside on Sept. 25th. But guess what? He didn’t tell us how to organize our community. His name is John McKnight and his official title is Professor of Education and Social Policy and Co-Director, Asset-Based Community Development Institute at North-western University in Chicago. He said Barrack Obama […]

October 28, 2009

Residents Solutions to Downtown Eastside

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Published Oct 24, Jean Swanson, Vancouver Sun Blog. Edited for the NL by wp: Last month I wrote about our mapping process. The DTES, it turns out, has lots of good qualities like acceptance, empathy, 5000 units of good social housing, needed and appreciated services, and a sense of community that other neighbourhoods would die […]

October 4, 2009

CCAP planning day shows DTES has a lot of heart

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Unity, equality of all of us, acceptance, caring, a lot of diversity, compassion, respect, comfortable, a real community. These are some of the words that 30 people wrote on rocks at the Carnegie Community Action Project’s Planning Day on July 27th. CCAP organized the day to get low-income residents to help develop a vision and […]