FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2018 Fight for 58 and the soul of the DTES: Community Townhall on December 7th Vancouver, BC, Unceded Coast Salish Territories – On Friday December 7th, community residents and housing activists will reaffirm their community vision for 100% shelter rate and pension rate housing at 58 West Hastings […]
Our Homes Can’t Wait (OHCW) acknowledges that this event is being organized on the occupied, unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. What: Rally – We refuse a world with homelessness When: 6:30 pm, Friday, June 23 Where: Vancouver Art […]
Former U.N. Rapporteur, Miloon Kothari, who visited Vancouver a decade ago as part of a cross-country study tour for the UN, spent the afternoon, June 5 meeting with DTES residents, touring the neighbourhood and the Balmoral Hotel with the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP.) At the Balmoral Hotel Block Party organized by the DTES SRO […]
Tomorrow is the injunction hearing for the Ten Year Tent City on 950 Main Street. The Our Homes Can’t Wait coalition is calling on the City and Province to let the Ten Year Tent City stay until there is decent affordable social housing for all homeless people or until another suitable site for the tent […]
The 2017 Metro Vancouver homelessness count was just released. The count found a steep increase in homelessness across Metro Vancouver with 828 more people identified as homeless in 2017 compared to 2014, representing a 30% increase in homelessness and the highest number to date. In the City of Vancouver, there are now over 2,100 people […]
While the City Council is discussing a new housing reset report, aiming to build more housing for the middle class, shelter residents are being sent back to the streets. This morning, residents of the Gathering Place winter shelter, spoke out against its closure this Friday. The Gathering Place is just one of nine shelters set […]
Today’s Federal budget says $11.2 billion will be spent on housing over the next 11 years. Mainstream media has celebrated the housing budget. Toronto Star says cities are one of the winners because of the housing budget. Huffington Post’s headline was “Liberals Dedicate Billions For Affordable Housing” and Global News called it a “Big investment […]
With the highest homeless count ever in Vancouver, what will the Federal budget, expected on Wednesday, do to provide housing for people who are homeless and can only afford $375 a month for rent? How to estimate how many housing units Vancouver could get with federal money announced in the budget: A new unit […]
Homelessness in the DTES is a humanitarian crisis. For the first time in history, the number of homeless people in the community escalated to over 1000 in 2016. 1 in 18 people is homeless in our neighbourhood while the average rent is at a record high. On Monday, March 20, the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) […]