Smithers Interior News reported recently on an increase in users of the Broadway Place homeless shelter in Smithers. Although Smithers' efforts to provide housing for the homeless were praised by...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre has a new fact sheet available: “Can my landlord turn off my heat?”
View all of TRAC's factsheets here.
Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
From Pivot:
"“Whose problem is it?” It seems that is the eternal question in the debate about Canada’s housing crisis. The federal government maintains that housing is the purview of the provinces....
Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
In its fifth year, the large turnout for the annual DTES Women's Housing March shows that the movement pushing for better access to safe and affordable housing for women in the neighbourhood, is not...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Violence, Women, British Columbia
The City of Vancouver has struggled to force the owners of two Vancouver Single Room Occupancy hotels to clean up their properties and fix the multitude of reported problems. Recently the situation...
Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC has released a report on serving aboriginal homeless persons in a culturally sensitive way. From the Executive Summary:
Previous research has shown that...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, British Columbia
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre has a extended their night shelter service, and anticipates BC Housing will soon be accepting tenders to run a 24-hour women's shelter in the Downtown Eastside.
The...
Homelessness, Housing, Women, British Columbia
Megaphone is a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver by homeless and low-income vendors. Vendors buy the paper for 50 cents and sell the magazine to customers by donation. All money from the...
Homelessness, Media, British Columbia
The website of Homelessness Action Week, organized in Metro Vancouver by the Regional Steering Community on Homelessness. The website has news, resources, and information on homelessness and how to...
Homelessness, British Columbia, Yukon
Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness is comprised of people from a variety of government bodies, social service agencies, faith communities and policing departments as well as concerned private...
Government Policy, Homelessness, British Columbia
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 on Community Coalition (IOCC) about the...
Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia
The Carnegie Community Action Project's blog has news and information on housing, homelessness, and actions in the Downtown Eastside.
Homelessness, British Columbia
Victoria Street Newz is an alternative independent media site and street newsper out of Victoria that focuses on the root causes and effects of poverty, homelessness, and environmental degradation.
Homelessness, Media, British Columbia
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 and works together with...
Disability, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty Research, Welfare, British Columbia
Poverty Olympics is a site put together by a group of concerned citizens and community groups who want the 2010 Winter Games’ legacy to be one of reducing, not increasing, poverty and homelessness.
Homelessness, Organizing, Poorbashing, British Columbia
David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty.
Homelessness, Housing, Legal Research, Poverty Research, British Columbia
Finding our Way Home is David Chudnovsky's blog on his tour of the province as the NDP MLA BC Critic for Homelessness and Mental Health. He is wanting to hear experiences, challenges, hopes,...
Homelessness, British Columbia
Streams of Justice is a faith-based blog with many articles on homelessness, poverty and other social justice issues.
Homelessness, British Columbia
The City Wide Housing Coalition is a coalition in Vancouver working to save and build low income housing.
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, British Columbia
Formerly Homeless is a blog about the homeless and homelessness in Canada written by a formerly homeless social/community worker.
Homelessness, Media, British Columbia, All of Canada
