August 13, 2008
During a press conference in Beijing, BC Premier Gordon Campbell was asked by international journalists about homelessness, addiction, poverty and protest during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Gordon...
August 11, 2008
The directory was created in response to older adults' direct requests about housing options. After speaking with thousands of older adults and defining their housing needs, the Seniors Services...
August 10, 2008
According to a report, One World, Whose Dream? Housing Rights Violations and the Beijing Olympic Games (in PDF), released by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 1.5 million people have been...
July 22, 2008
The Partners In Hope Recovery Society has an accommodation listings on their website - http://www.partnersinhope.ca/. Volunteers at the society go through all the papers in the Lower Mainland and...
July 13, 2008
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has released a report, Right at home: Report on the consultation on human rights and rental housing in Ontario (in PDF) that focuses on housing as a human right,...
June 9, 2008
Kelowna Community Resources is a searchable online database of community resources from across the central Okanagan.
May 26, 2008
The Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters Program provides monthly cash payments to eligible residents of British Columbia who are 60 years or over and who pay rent for their homes.
May 21, 2008
Thanks to lobbying by anti-poverty advocates and activists, the Ontario government has invested $5 million dollars into rent banks to help renters who are facing eviction stay in their homes ("...
April 21, 2008
PIVOT Legal Society, the Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition have launched a complaint to the UN about the living conditions of residents in...
February 26, 2008
Activists stood on various street corners in different areas of Vancouver to protest the provincial and federal governments' lack of initiative toward housing and homelessness. Watch a video about...
