July 22, 2010
Stephen Gaetz talks about the Alberta government's new plan to discourage people from giving money to panhandlers and give to agencies instead. He argues that "this kind of thinking represents policy...
Alberta, Housing, Mental Health, Panhandling, Poorbashing, Welfare, All of Canada
March 26, 2010
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
March 10, 2010
The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, has written a report that shows the impact of “mega-events” in the realization of the right to adequate housing. She says, “I am...
Homelessness, Housing, International
February 26, 2010
Over the last month thousands of activists and various organizations and campaigns have called for an end to homelessness and a increase in social housing. The Red Tent Campaign handed out hundreds...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 11, 2010
Renovated Golden Crown Hotel must allow kicked out tenant to move back in.
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 2, 2010
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
February 2, 2010
A coalition of housing activists are handing out red tents on the streets of Vancouver to pressure the federal government to create a housing strategy. The Red Tent Campaign plans to hand out over...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
November 16, 2009
The Housing Network of Ontario has released a report on community consultations for a Long Term Affordable Housing Strategy in Ontario. This report consolidates recommendations made by many hundreds...
Housing, Ontario
November 10, 2009
Vancouver's oldest social housing complex, Little Mountain is now being demolished. Little Mountain was built in the early 1950's to house the families of homeless and underhoused veterns.
In 2008,...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
September 10, 2009
As Vancouver comes closer to hosting the Olympics, more residents of Vancouver are becoming victims of Olympic-related evictions. Last week the residents of a Downtown Eastside hotel were given...
Downtown Eastside, evictions, Homelessness, Housing, Olympics, British Columbia
June 19, 2009
In October 2008, the BC Supreme Court struck down Victoria's bylaw banning people from erecting tents or other structures in city parks. The judge ruled that due to the lack of housing and shelter,...
court case. tent city, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia
April 13, 2009
A story in the New York Times investigates how about a dozen advocacy groups around the country are actively moving homeless people into vacant homes, sometimes moving them back into their homes that...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, United States
April 13, 2009
http://www.cohhio.org/ - Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) is involved in a range of housing assistance services in Ohio, including homeless prevention, emergency shelters,...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, General resources, United States
April 7, 2009
Thousands of people marched to demand government action on affordable housing and homelessness in Vancouver and across BC on Saturday. The march was organized by the Citywide Housing Coalition, a...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, British Columbia
March 30, 2009
In February, the Victoria Times Colonist published a seven part series about the Indigenous housing crisis on the West Coast. The series exposed the poorly constructed houses, overcrowding, mold and...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Housing, British Columbia
March 25, 2009
TRAC Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre is an educational charity that provides information about residential tenancy law in BC. They have a newly redesigned website that has information and...
Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
March 21, 2009
The Saskatchewan government has released the 2009-2010 Budget and unlike many other provinces is predicting economic growth and a surplus. Included in the budget is $12.5 million to adjust shelter...
Government Policy, Housing, Saskatchewan
February 1, 2009
On January 30th, the BC provincial government announced that they were investing enough money to purchase or lease fifteen new properties to create and protect social housing across the province. The...
Housing, British Columbia
January 18, 2009
PIVOT Legal Society and the Carnegie Community Action Project and other housing advocacy groups in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are calling on the provincial Residential Tenancy Branch to impose...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
December 18, 2008
More than 50 pieces of art created by professional artists and community members, including ex-residents are on exhibit on the boarded up windows of the Little Mountain Housing complex. The Little...
Art and Culture, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
December 2, 2008
A Miami activist organization, Take Back the Land, has started moving in homeless individuals and families into empty foreclosed homes. Take Back the Land asserts: "that it is immoral to maintain...
Homelessness, Housing, United States
December 2, 2008
http://www.clvu.org/ - City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community...
Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, General resources, United States
December 2, 2008
http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com/
http://takebacktheland.org/
Take Back the Land is an activist group out of Miami that asserts their right to the land in their communities and the use of public...
Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, General resources, United States
November 23, 2008
A report released to the CBC adds to the concerns over Nunuvut's housing stock by claiming that there will a $155 million dollar funding shortfall for social housing in thirty years. According to the...
Housing, Nunavut
October 5, 2008
Last month the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCPA) surveyed the hotels in the Downtown Eastside and found 486 privately owned empty housing units. They did not count the many empty government-...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
September 27, 2008
http://www.my-calm.info/ - Community Advocates for Little Mountain (CALM) are working to save Vancouver’s oldest social housing complex - 224 homes on 15 acres beside Queen Elizabeth Park - which is...
Housing, Organizing, British Columbia, General resources
September 23, 2008
http://www.sparc.bc.ca/ - The Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) is a non-partisan, charitable organization operating in BC since 1966. SPARC BC focuses on social justice issues...
Disability, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty Research, Welfare, British Columbia, General resources
September 20, 2008
After more then twenty-five years the New York City municipal government has finally decided to settle a lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society to draw attention to homeless families. The lawsuit...
Family, Homelessness, Housing, United States
September 8, 2008
The Prairie Metropolis Centre which is dedicated to research on immigration, integration and diversity has recently produced a report, The Housing Circumstances of Recently Arrived Refugees: The...
Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Manitoba
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...
Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
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...
Housing, Human Rights, International
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,...
Housing, Human Rights, Ontario
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 ("...
Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
May 1, 2008
On May 3rd, people around BC, from Prince George to Vancouver Island will be STANDing for housing. STANDs for Housing started in Vancouver over the closing of social housing in the Little Mountain...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
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...
Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia
April 21, 2008
http://www.noplacelikehomevancouver.org/ - The no place like home website documents a complaint to the UN by the PIVOT Legal Society, Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics...
Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia, General resources
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...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
January 24, 2008
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has called for a national action plan to end homelessness and deliver affordable housing. Read more in a CBC article, "$3.35B needed each year for housing...
Homelessness, Housing, All of Canada
November 29, 2007
The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) and the Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) have launched a Housing Not War campaign to demand that funding the federal government has directed towards war and...
Government Policy, Housing, Ontario, All of Canada
November 14, 2007
The City of Toronto released a draft 10-year housing strategy called Housing Opportunities Toronto (HOT) on which outlines a plan is to create 209,000 new and renovated affordable homes over the next...
Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
