| | Stop Demolition of Fraser Street Housing - Speak at Council (Feb 17) Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009, 2 pm at Vancouver City Hall 3rd floor council chambers. Please sign up to speak. Meeting could be deferred to 2 pm on Thurs Feb 19. We need your help. Learn about how the city is not protecting all rental housing in Vancouver and help turn this situation and others like it around. [MORE INFORMATION] |
| | DTES Planning Meeting for Grand March (Feb 17)Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 7-8:30 pm at Carnegie Centre 3rd floor Gallery, 401 Main Street (at Hastings). Everyone welcome. Help make the Grand March on April 4 friendly to those most affected by the housing and homelessness crisis. Light snack. Childminding if requested in advance: Wendy 604-839-0379 |
| | Next Grand March Organizer Meeting (Feb 19)Thursday, Feb 19, 2009, 7-8:30pm. at 10th Church (11 West 10th Avenue). All committee members for the Grand March please come to this March Organizing meeting. New members welcome. More info: Rider Cooey 604 872 1382 |
| | STAND for Housing (Feb 21st) Saturday, Feb 21, 2009 1-2 pm
Little Mountain advocates and CHC are organizing these STANDs around the Province to lead up to the Grand march in April. Its easy, effective and fun. [GET A KIT] ]JOIN A STAND] [PROVINCE WIDE FLYER] |
| | Join the Call: Re-open Little Mountain (Feb 21) Saturday, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm - 33rd and Ontario. March and Outdoor gallery tour. Join us at the LIttle Mountain complex to call for the re-opening of 205 empty homes. View 110 pieces of artwork produced by more than 50 artists in boarded up windows. Redevelopment of this site is years away and re-opening these sites is the quickest and least expensive way to house hundreds of families in desperate need.
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for more info. |
| | Public Forum on Ticketing the Homeless (Feb 23) Monday, Feb 23, 2009 7-9 pm at Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, 1803 East First Avenue, Vancouver. Forum by Streams of Justice on Law, Crime, Punishment: Defining and Controlling Deviance. With panelists David Eby (interim director of the BC Civil Liberties Association), Kirk Tousaw (lawyer, BCCLA) and Harsha Walia (local activist and legal researcher). [FLYER] |
| | Athlete's Village You Tube and PhotosClick [HERE] to watch the You Tube on the Poverty Olympics Athlete's Village and [HERE] for a slideshow of photos by Blackbird. Click [HERE] for useful comparison of Olympic costs compared to ending poverty and homelessness....price of 1 ticket for 2010 opening ceremony is much more than someone gets on welfare etc. |
| | | 2008 Newsmaker of the Year - Vancouver CourierFriday, December 26, 2008
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| | | Start a Stand for Housing with Your Family or Friends - January 24th
The Community Advocates for Little Mountain and the CHC are organizing Stands for Housing around the province. The next one is January 24 from 1-2 pm. Stands are easy and effective. Lets cover all the main intersections! See attachment to get a Stand Kit or join a regular Stand group nearby.
[Get a Kit Join a Stand] |
| | Little Mountain Art-In (Dec 7) BC Housing says that demolition of the housing complex is imminent and has boarded up the windows. Join fellow artists and activists to show that these 230 units must be “re-tenanted.” Paint colorful scenes to cover the pasty plywood. [Invitation to participate] |
 | | Public Conference: Housing, Violence and Women’s Inequality Saturday, December 6, 2008, 12:00 noon
Vancouver Public Library, Main Branch 350 West Georgia St. Join us to observe dialogue of prominent feminists across the Pacific Rim and from BC in the topic of housing, violence and women's inequality. |
| | | Start a Stand for Housing with Your Family or Friends The Community Advocates for Little Mountain and the CHC are organizing Stands for Housing around the province. The next one is January 24 from 1-2 pm. Stands are easy and effective. Lets cover all the main intersections! See attachment to get a Stand Kit or join a regular Stand group nearby.
[Get a Kit Join a Stand] |
 | | DTES Gentrification Tour, Sunday (Nov 30)Meet the Carnegie Community Action Project at the bottom of the
Carnegie Centre steps to take a gentrification tour of the Downtown
Eastside. See attachment for full description of the tour. $20/person for
non-residents [tour description] |
 | | Homeless make do by sleeping out on a Cabinet Minister's Doorstep10-15 people have been sleeping in a hidden alcove at the Dockside
Welfare office in the Downtown Eastside for at least a month. The Ministry
of Income Assistance, led by Minister Rich Coleman, wants the bars up to
block off the alcove. Squatters organize with Citywide Housing Coaltion and
CCAP members. [press release] |
 | | Fraser Street Tenants Will Fight to Save Their Homes Thurs Nov. 13, 10-11 am. Bring your friends and faimly out to support renters at 4545 Prince Albert and 4550 Fraser Street who may lose their homes to demolition. he City's 1 for 1 replacement policy for rental housing will not be achieved on these sites. Come out to learn more about this important fight. [press release]
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| | | Community Advocates for Little Mountain Housing in Vancouver [Start a Stand] |
| | | Next province-wide STAND for HOUSING, Saturday November 29th This is the first of four monthly Stands leading up to next year’s March in April. The goal is to put more and more people at intersections each month until we reach 15,000 marchers around the province on April 4th. Provincial election, here we come. [Notice to Stand Coordinators] |
 | | Grand March For Housing 2009 Next Open Planning Meeting Tues. Nov 18, 7-8:30 pm. On April 4, 2009, thousands of people from communities across BC,will march to demand immediate government action to build and protect affordable housing and raise welfare and minimum wage rates. Meet at Jewish Family Service Agency #305 - 1985 W Broadway to help organize and build this big event.
[press release]
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 | | Standing Up Against Olympic Gentrification Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7pm. A free public discussion forum about Olympic gentrification with Chris Shaw (No Games 2010 Coalition, UBC Professor), Carol Martin (Nisga'a Nation, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Elders Council, Jeff Sommers (verteran of the expo evictions, cultural geographer and researcher, PHD)and Wendy Pedersen (organizer for Carnegie Community Action Project) at theYWCA Hotel Meeting Room
(733 Beatty Street, off Robson).
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 | | Survey of City Candidates on Eco-densityNeighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver created a questionaire for candidates on issues important to neighbourhood groups from across the city. Read the responses from candidates below plus analysis by this coalition. [Sidhu-NPA, Cadman & Woodsworth-COPE, Robertson-Vision, Geller-NPA, Bickerton-NPA, COPE Homelessness Plan] |
 | | City To Bail Out Olympic Developers Homeless To Bail Out Tents.
[Please see release attached [Press Release] |
| | THE SOUL OF VANCOUVER SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 7–10 PMVoices From The Downtown Eastside BOOK LAUNCH – SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 7–10 PM Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St. Join the idealists of the DTES Poets and community activists for an exciting night of spoken word and music, resisting gentrification and displacement. [FLYER] |
| | Bruce – The Musical, Nov. 6 - 16thBruce – The Musical recreates key events in the life of the late founder of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA), and the individual most responsible for transforming the image of Vancouver's lowest-income neighbourhood from Skid Road to residential community. More info: www.theatreintheraw.ca & YouTube |
| | EMERGENCY HOMELESSNESS ALERT Oct. 31, 10:00 am
Support the Aboriginal Community!!! Press Conference October 31, 2008 at 10:00AM hosted by Helping Sprit Lodge Society, 3965 Dumfries Street Vancouver. The Aboriginal Homelessness Steering Committee For Metro Vancouver (AHSC) is again calling attention to the dire situation of Aboriginal homelessness. [Press Release] |
 | | CHC SPONSORED MUNICIPAL COUNCIL DEBATE (Oct. 28)
Wednesday, October 28, 7-9:30 p.m.
Vancouver Public Library, Alice MacKay Room, 350 W. Georgia St. COPE, NPA and VISION council members will debate housing, transportation and citizen engagement issues. Also sponsored by Think City and Georgia Straight. Advanced Registration. [Poster] |
| | RENTERS AT RISK WEST END - MARCH & DEMONSTRATION (Oct. 25)
Saturday, October 25, 1:30 p.m. Nelson Park
Hundreds of renters evicted through legal loopholes.
contact: www.rentersatrisk.ca [FLYER] [POSTER] |
 | | PANEL ON HOMELESSNESS & HOUSING JUSTICE (Oct. 24)
Friday, October 24, 6-8 p.m.
DTES Women's Centre (302 Columbia Street). Speakers include Carol Martin (DTES Elders Council), Nick Blomely (SFU), Ayisha Faruk (CCAP), Jean Swanson (CCAP) and a member of the Power to Women group hosted by Vancouver Flying University. |
| | Mayoralty Candidates Debate (Oct. 22) St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church Burrard and Nelson FREE PUBLIC EVENT.
Hear the Candidates’ Views on These Issues: Affordable Housing, homelessness & mental Health. Peter Ladner & Gregor Robertson. FOR MORE INFORMATION Email:
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Phone: 604.862.6826 www.endhomelessnessnow.ca [FLYER] |
 | | DAVID SUZUKI INVITES YOU TO A CHC FUNDRAISER (Oct.19)
Sunday, October 19, 6:00 p.m. David Suzuki invites you to a Citywide Housing Coalition fundraiser to honor Kitsilano activist Mel Lehan. Great entertainment, desserts and silent auction. Proceeds split between CHC for housing campaign & St James Community Hall for new chairs. Tickets: 604 739 9373 [Invitation]
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| | VIGIL & FAST FOR HOUSING JUSTICE (Oct.13-18)Tuesday, October 13-18 @ Vancouver City Hall. Finale on the 18th at 1 p.m.
Streams of Justice goes without food and tents to end housing crisis and challenges Vancouver to uphold ruling in Victoria. [Press Release 1] [Press Release 2] [Demands] [Fasting] |
 | | SURROUND CITY HALLS PROVINCE WIDE (Oct.18)
Saturday, October 18, 1-2 p.m.
Big turnout expected. Stands for Housing, Community Advocates for Little Mountain, Renters At Risk, Stop War, West End Residents Association, Power of Women, New West Diocese of Anglicans, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Jewish Family Services Association and so many others to attend. [FLYER] |
| | EMPTY HOTEL ROOMS COULD BE TEMPORARY SHELTERSAn estimated 400 hotel rooms in the Downtown Eastside are vacant and could be upgraded cheaply and turned into temporary shelters for people who are homeless on the street.
[PRESS RELEASE] [THE PROVINCE] [24 HOURS]
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| | HOUSING STAND & FEDERAL CANDIDATES MEETING (Oct, 08)Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 1-3:00 p.m.
Little Mountain Social Housing Project (Main & 36th Ave). Help bring back a federal social housing program. [FLYER] |
 | | Concord Pacific (June 18th,08) We (CCAP, Streams of Justice and members of CHC + others) had come on June 13, with a giant card for Terry Hui, the head of Concord Pacific, which is building over 200 condos in the DTES. The card suggested that Hui withdraw his project or donate his proposed building at 58 W. Hastings to social housing and name it after Darrell Mikasko, a homeless man who burned to death trying to stay warm. |
| | United Nations Human Rights Complaint (Apr 08)Citywide Housing coalition endorsed this launch of a formal human rights complaint against the Canadian government over ongoing SRO housing conversions in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. |
| | Poverty Olympics (Feb 08) What do Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach and Chewy the Rat have in common with the 2010 Olympics? They are the mascots of the first annual Poverty Olympics. The Citywide Housing Coalition shares the hope that international horror at the poverty situation in Vancouver will spur our governments to use their massive surpluses to end poverty and homelessness. |
| | Stands for Housing (Feb 08 onward) Turquoise blue banners and scarves are becoming recognized as a reminder to governments that a comprehensive housing program is urgently needed to address the growing housing and homelessness crisis. Citywide Housing Coalition supported the initiative started by Concerned Advocates for Little Mountain (CALM) contributed and expanded it to be citywide. |
| | Eco-density (Feb 08) Citywide Housing Coalition does not support the City’s Eco-density plan and instead spoke in favour of land use mechanisms that will guarantee affordability and land for social housing across the city. |
 | | Opera Condemned (Feb 08) This Downtown Eastside opera about the shocking evictions at the Pender Hotel was produced by Citywide Housing Coalition in Kitsilano and was followed with a forum discussion. (photo: Bharbara Gudmundson) |
