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Saturday September 6th 2008

Olympic Displacement

June 11, 2007 - 3:50pm

The Geneva based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions has released a report entitled, Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights (in PDF), about the displacement of over two million people in the last 20 years in seven different Olympic cities. Read an article on the Tyee about the evictions and homeless in Vancouver as a result of the 2010 Olympics, "More Homeless than Athletes in 2010."

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