Low-income families are being priced out of their own neighborhoods in South Los Angeles so landlords can profit from luxury housing. Organizations such as Esperanza Community Housing aim to prevent the...
created by fayala | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 215 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
This must be what gentrification looks like. A second Waves coffee shop is opening on the Downtown Eastside, just two blocks from the first one that opened last year at Main & Pender. The new one at Main...
created by jr | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 238 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
As one Madrid neighborhood faces gentrification, the local working girls have banded together to protest the loss of their workplace. Instead of picket signs, though, they tried something different: a fashion...
created by jordan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 4240 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
Every Saturday people wearing blue scarves and holding blue banners meet for an hour between 1 and 2 p.m. on street corners in Vancouver. They are demanding more social housing, less conversion of rental housing...
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The City of Vancouver admits it screwed up. And on Tuesday groups opposing accelerated gentrification in Vancouver in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics fought back.The Carnegie Community Action Project and...
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Poor people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are demanding that millionaire developer Robert Wilson return the food money he took from them.
The Carnegie Action Project produced "WANTED" posters for Wilson,...
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All rights reserved.This is a composite/double exposure of two images taken from the elevated 125th Street subway station. It's a study on the semiotics of billboard advertising and how the messages...
created by Eliud Martinez | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 869 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
October 16, 2007 Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing for the United Nations Human Rights Council, met with people in Vancouver, British Columbia. People spoke who have been homeless and people...
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Every year Vancouver's Eastside artists open their studios and host a "Culture Crawl" to showcase the city's art. People can go check out artists and artisans in their natural environment, and even spark up a conversation with their favourite future Picasso.Gentrification of...
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"APC re-starts campaign to raid offices of executives linked to the games.
Jul, 31 2007 - 4:50 PM
VANCOUVER/CKNW980 - Without offering any proof that preparations for the 2010 Olympics are forcing people out of...
created by Susan Jones | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 351 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Just when one feels the “Bushies”, neo-conservative storm troopers and real estate developers have taken over the world (well, maybe just the US), it is gratifying to come across communities of people who...
created by Eliud Martinez | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 853 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The San Francisco Pawn Shop is dead. After 50 years, its doors on Hastings St. across from Save On Foods will shut at the end of August. Story at Downtown Eastside Enquirer.
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Gentrification 2.0 by Slavoj Turkel This is about another piece of web2.0 gizmosis that is almost as carcinogenic as NowPublic (the website which asks you to prove you are human everytime you want to become a citizen journalist - tho of course in reality the process is...
created by spectacule2.0 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 352 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
On Sunday, October 22, a group of approximately 100 protesters marched mere feet from where they assembled at Pigeon Park (Hastings and Carral) shouting "Homes not games" and "No homes, no peace" to support a...