#DTES
A new union agreement brings improvements for some Portland Hotel Society peer workers, but leaves most working to save lives in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside out in the cold. @zakvescera explains. #DTES #VanLab
#Vancouver #PoliceBoard closed a #complaint about #MediaAccess during removal of an #EastHastings Street #HomelessCamp on April 5 after #police denied they created an “#ExclusionZone.”
The large operation, carried out by dozens of city staff & police, was a departure from the city’s treatment of previous #TentEncampments. The decision to remove all tents, mostly in 1 day, came after city spent months trying to control the sidewalk encampment on several blocks of #DTES.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/27/Police-Board-Dismisses-Complaint-Media
#Vancouver council is set to discuss whether a solution to the city’s increasing #homelessness issue lies in easing what’s required of #developers building new #housing in the #DowntownEastside, and helping owners & operators of existing buildings with urgent repairs & renovations.
Council will vote on “exploring options to update the #DTES Area Plan, with a goal of delivering more social units,” the motion states.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-derelict-sro-fix
#MissionPossibleNeighbours hires people with #LivedExperience in the #community to provide alternative forms of #security & #outreach in the #DTES.
Over the year, #MPNeighbours have #DeEscalated at least 113 situations, made 464 service referrals & picked up more than 12,000 needles.
Matthew Smedley is exec director/CEO of the #nonprofit #MissionPossible, which specializes in helping some of the city’s most #vulnerable people reconnect with employment.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10099414/dtes-neighbours-alternative-security/amp
Global News BC: Downtown Eastside groups issue urgent plea for homeless ahead of winter https://globalnews.ca/news/10066978/dtes-winter-homeless-recommendation/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Vancouverhomeless #DowntownEastside #Homeless #Canada #DTES
Global News BC: Bystanders stop stabbing incident in Downtown Eastside: Vancouver police https://globalnews.ca/news/9974719/bystanders-stop-stabbing-downtown-eastside/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #downtowneastsidestabbing #Easthastingsstabbing #Publicstopsstabbings #DowntownEastside #vancouverpolice #Crime #DTES #VPD
Global News BC: ‘It’s a shame’: Vancouver builder says red tape killed DTES social housing project https://globalnews.ca/news/9972876/dtes-red-tape-social-housing/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #SupportiveHousing #DowntownEastside #CityofVancouver #socialhousing #B.C.Housing #Development #Developer #Vancouver #Housing #redtape #Canada #DTES
Global News BC: Vancouver’s Chinatown seeing change 1 year after delegation to San Francisco brought back ideas https://globalnews.ca/news/9950033/chinatown-1-year-delegation-san-francisco/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #VancouverPoliceDepartment #BaguaArtistAssociation #SanFranciscoChinatown #VancouverChinatown #DowntownEastside #CityofVancouver #Perspectives #SanFrancisco #VPDtriptoSF #Vancouver #Politics #Economy #Canada #Crime #DTES #VPD
Global News BC: ‘I don’t want to die in this street’: Woman homeless in DTES due to paperwork issue https://globalnews.ca/news/9949256/downtown-eastside-homeless-paperwork-issue/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DowntownEastsideresidents #EvictionDTESVancouver #VancouverDTESstreet #Federalpensionplan #DowntownEastside #LivingintheDTES #VancouverDTES #EvictionDTES #Politics #Economy #SRODTES #DTES
Global News BC: ‘It starts with dignity’: New outreach centre for youth in Downtown Eastside https://globalnews.ca/news/9948486/new-outreach-centre-youth-downtown-eastside/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #VancouverCoastalHealthAuthority #newyouthoutreachcentreDTES #mentalhealthandaddictions #DowntownVancouver #JenniferWhiteside #DowntownEastside #Health #DTES
Global News BC: Vancouver police officer charged in collision with DTES pedestrian caught on camera https://globalnews.ca/news/9948515/vpd-dtes-collision-officer-charged/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #vancouverpoliceofficercharged #PoliceAccountability #vpdofficercharged #DowntownEastside #PedestrianStruck #PoliceOversight #vancouverpolice #OfficerCharged #dtescollision #Crime #DTES #VPD
A walk through Vancouver’s two worlds: "I had passed through the invisible wall that divides money from misery. The scenes just around the corner on East Hastings Street seemed light years away – in another world."
Gift 🎁 link:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d7d9f21b653392f56d7fbb0a747cb02947b95e17e1a39520683e71c17a3397cb/NCDU5CTXXRFLTE7PJJMS3YVZRE/ #DTES #vancouver #homeless
Global News BC: Are social housing requirements in the heart of Vancouver’s DTES working? https://globalnews.ca/news/9896398/dtes-social-housing-zone-quesitons/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DowntownEastside #Vancouverhousing #oppenheimerpark #RentalHousing #socialhousing #VancouverDTES #Politics #Housing #DTES
Global News BC: Future of vendors uncertain as clock ticks down on Vancouver’s DTES Market https://globalnews.ca/news/9891589/dtes-market-deadline/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #vancouverstreetmarket #disabilitysupport #DowntownEastside #StreetMarket #Disability #dtesmarket #LowIncome #Vancouver #Canada #Social #Crime #DTES
“A lack of commitment in supporting life-saving services”: Vancouver will not be renewing the lease of the Thomus Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site — located in the neighbourhood with the second-highest overdose rate in the city after the #DTES.
@pennydaflos
This is horrific. We’ve known about each of these worsening drugs for years
These drugs are only available because of the laws meant to prevent them
They are literally legal drugs. Drugs created by laws
Every case is an indictment
B.C. health-care workers seeing signs of flesh-eating drug
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/it-scares-me-b-c-health-care-workers-seeing-signs-of-flesh-eating-drug-1.6486838
Xylazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylazine
Downtown Eastside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
Kílala Lelum (Urban Indigenous Health & Healing Cooperative; https://kilalalelum.ca) aims to partner Indigenous Elders w. physicians & allied health professionals to provide physical, mental, emotional, & spiritual care to the community in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
#Vancouver #addiction #xylazine #PublicHealth #DTES #KilaLalelum
Vancouver Things: 47th Annual Powell Street Festival https://miss604.com/2023/07/47th-annual-powell-street-festival.html - via @Miss604 #Vancouver #Events #VancouverEvents #PowellStreetFestival #DowntownVancouver #cheapthingstodo #non-profit #vancouver #CheapFun #festival #events #arts #DTES #BC
@thatgeoguy
There are a tremendous number of people living in penthouses just a few blocks away from folks in abject poverty
It’s interesting to ride a bike from the #DTES to #Kitsilano
Which is such a dramatic demonstration of disparity in a confined space
Interesting place #Vancouver
#bcpoli
North Vancouver paramedic remembered for volunteer patrols to reverse overdoses in Downtown Eastside
Ryan Vena helped save many lives as he navigated his own recovery from addiction
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ryan-vena-remembered-for-life-saving-work-1.6880471
1200s if not 1000s of people in British Columbia are alive & well today thanks to Ryan Vena, as loved ones mourn the death of a man who took it upon himself to respond to overdoses in the Downtown Eastside years before he became a paramedic.
Global News BC: Man left with life-threatening injuries following downtown Vancouver shooting https://globalnews.ca/news/9761135/downtown-vancouver-shooting-east-hastings-princess/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #downtowneastsideshooting #Maninjuredinshooting #Vancouvershooting #vancouverpolice #BcShooting #Vancouver #Shooting #Crime #DTES #VPD
@dancarkner
…So a real solution is to raid the homes of money launderers, and confiscate the properties of real estate tax dodgers
Then, within weeks, we will magically have solutions to the 4000 people living on the street for decades in #Vancouver. Bet on it.
@dancarkner
My comment amongst the chatter there:
— They raided the wrong postal code. If the city of #Vancouver wants to solve #homelessness, they need to mount police raids into neighborhoods where decisions are made that control the rents
The “#HousingCrisis“ is making a lot of people a lot of money. It is not a crisis for them, and it will continue because it is very profitable
#dtes #vanpoli
Global News BC: ‘At least’ 2 hurt in ‘chaotic’ shooting on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside https://globalnews.ca/news/9741947/dtes-multiple-victims-shooting-targeted/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Vancouvershooting #DowntownEastside #targetedshooting #vancouverpolice #DoubleShooting #PolicePresence #DTESshooting #easthastings #Roadsclosed #twohurt #Crime #chaos #DTES #VPD
Global News BC: Police close stretch of Hastings street after ‘multiple serious assaults’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9740505/vancouver-police-incident-dtes/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DowntownEastside #vancouverpolice #PoliceIncident #Vancouvercrime #Vancouver #Crime #DTES #VPD
That annual march has taken the streets of the #DTES since 1992.
In recent years, it’s in a sea of red ribbon skirts. 🪡🔴
"One month after the City of Vancouver removed residents from makeshift shelters on East Hastings, community members, advocates, and former city staff say forcing people to leave has done more harm than good."
'Woodward says he feels the streets are more "nasty" as people try to survive after losing their belongings.
"It's more dog eat dog," he says. "Everyone's getting stolen from, you fall asleep and someone rips off all your stuff."'
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Ken Sim and ABC, folks. Finding empathetic ways to address poverty and homelessness.
A morning post for the gofundme I started in my pursuit of housing: gofund.me/94de6657
#disability #mutualaid #housing #dtes #blm #BlackMastodon #emergency #autism
I made a go fund me to prevent homelessness. I am begging with every fiber, every nerve, every breath for anyone who even glimpses this post to read it, share it, and consider contributing even $5 if at all possible. I’m at the total mercy of the public.
#disability #mutualaid #housing #dtes #blm #BlackMastodon #emergency
@celesteh
I was confused because I thought this meant you had seen this “ON” Hastings Street, in #Vancouver which has for generations been the poorest urban neighborhood in Canada, two blocks from my house, where people sell stuff they pulled from bins (or sometimes perhaps other means)
The wealthiest people in Canada, 15 minutes away where the billionaires live, are bent on disappearing the impoverished, so the situation is rather desperate on Hastings now
#dtes
A Better Future Is Possible for the Downtown Eastside
By Shane Simpson 17 April 2023
The former BC NDP minister who grew up in the neighbourhood offers five ideas to grow a more resilient community.
A very long read but also a convincing argument
"‘There is a public consensus that government needs to act"
foundational issues that need to be part of any discussion
* Gentrification must be paused
* Safe supply of drugs
* Secure housing
* Meaningful reconciliation
1/2
#OpenLetter from #Academics Against #Vancouver #Encampment #Evictions
#HouseTheHouseless #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #VancouverPolitics #SocialHousingNeeded #LowIncomeHousingNeeded #SupportiveHousingNeeded #HousingCrisis #HelpTheHomeless #HumanRights #HomelessAreHumansToo #BeCompassionate #HelpNotHarm #BeACaringHuman #CanPoli #BCNDP #DavidEby #MayorKenSims #DTES #VancouverHousingCrisis #StopStreetSweeps #FundMoreHomesNotMoreCops #GlobalNorth #FundHomesNotEcocide
“To say the Hastings tent city and the survival strategies that come with it are the ‘cause’ of the problem is to ignore the reality that they were the effect of a very real problem of systemic policy failure that impacts us all but that only happens to be most visible in the Downtown Eastside."
@DawnRoseTurner @torontostar
All the talk of harms and inevitable serious impacts on residents and businesses from 3,000 people forced to live without homes because of the unaffordable rents in #Vancouver neglect to mention that if everyone magically disappears after all their possessions are destroyed or (ironically) we pay to put them in jail, a vast number of those same local businesses and residents will be wiped away by #gentrification
Survivor of fatal Downtown Eastside hotel fire files proposed class-action lawsuit:
"“Fire exits were locked. Some door closers were missing or broken. Holes in walls and ceilings were left unrepaired. Paint was peeling and black mould was growing. Rats were prolific,” says the claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court last Thursday."
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/04/11/survivor-of-fatal-downtown-eastside-hotel-fire-files-proposed-class-action-lawsuit.html #DTES #Atira #WintersHotel
Global News BC: Proposed class action lawsuit filed over deadly Winters Hotel fire in Downtown Eastside https://globalnews.ca/news/9614235/proposed-class-action-lawsuit-deadly-sro-fire-vancouver/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #AtiraPropertyManagement #WintersHotelclassaction #Winter'sHotelfire #DowntownEastside #CityofVancouver #GastownSROfire #deadlySROfire #VancouverSROs #WintersHotel #Fire #DTES #SROs
@msquebanh
People forget that the city of #Vancouver forced poor people to live on the #dtes by corralling them there for generations
Now developers want to make money from the properties here (I live at Main & Powell) without considering where people will go 🤷🏻♂️
People #squatting empty office buildings downtown is how I always imagine it ending 🏚️
#vanpoli #homelessness
Global News BC: Health care system, health of the homeless at risk amid DTES decampment: Union https://globalnews.ca/news/9613388/dtes-decampment-day-six/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #VancouverDowntownEastside #HastingsStreetEncampment #VancouverDecampment #Vancouverhomeless #DowntownEastside #HastingsStreet #Decampment #Cannabis #Homeless #DTES
@rylancole
If they evicted one of the Mayor’s developer friends and destroyed all their possessions (after discovering a fire hazard in one of their properties) maybe we’d see some changes
#dtes #vanpoli #homelessness
Global News BC: Union Gospel Mission feeds thousands in Downtown Eastside for annual Easter meal https://globalnews.ca/news/9611091/union-gospel-mission-feeds-thousands-in-downtown-eastside-for-annual-easter-meal/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #UGMeastermealVancouver #Vancouvereastermeal #UnionGospelMission #DowntownEastside #Freeeastermeal #UGMeastermeal #Canada #DTES #UGM
Global News BC: Hastings Street tent removal first step in B.C.’s takeover of Downtown Eastside service https://globalnews.ca/news/9610893/hastings-street-tent-removal-bc-takeover-dtes-service/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #tentremovalVancouver #Vancouverencampment #EastHastingsStreet #encampmentremoval #DowntownEastside #CityofVancouver #vancouverpolice #Perspectives #BCgovernment #Environment #Vancouver #Politics #Canada #DTES
During the city's take down of street camps in #Vancouver, I saw one protester who said it all in a few words " . . . . because there is nothing left for us." #homeless #equality #poverty #DTES
@jonjennings @HelenJ
Big allergy morning 🤧
#Vancouver #dtes #gastown
Most folks are quick to demonize some #SexWorkers without getting to know any & understanding why some are working the streets to survive. Education, compassion & empathy go much further than quick judgements. I have several friends in sex work & don't judge them. I try to support nonprofits who help them & help raise awareness on sex worker's rights & safety issues.
Shot this from Patricia Hotel in 1999 w/disposable paper camera. Early morning client & sex worker w/seagull sentinel.
#DTES
I shot this in 1999 w/a #DisposableCamera 📷
#BalmoralHotel on #EastHastings close to Gastown, opened in 1912 as a #HighClass #hotel for wealthy travellers. Chicago style elements of the hotel w/grid façade & massive overhang, were common on buildings built in the early #1900s in #Vancouver . #Neon sign on building was designed in 1940 by #NeonProducts, local company; in 1950s it was one of the biggest neon sign producers in the world.
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8285&pid=0
Northern Flicker in an alleyway behind Powell Street. Don't sleep on #UrbanBirding there's lots of nature to see and hear in the city! #Birding #DTES #Vancouver #BirdsOfMastodon
If you're in #Vancouver or #VictoriaBC, pick up your Hope in Shadows 2023 calendar. It features striking photographs (with stories) captured by folks from the Megaphone Magazine community. This photo project shares the stories of people experiencing poverty and homelessness through their own lens
ℹ️ https://miss604.com/2022/10/hope-in-shadows-2023-calendar-revealed.html
#nonprofit #community #calendar #newyear #vancouverbc #yvr #canada #britishcolumbia #dtes
My name is Teresa. I am an artist, author, and self-advocate with #DownSyndrome. See my "I Am Alive" video.
Hello.
Be nice to everyone.
Look, I am alive.
You have to be nice.
I am doing fine.
Thank goodness.
I have to be nice to them.
And to the others...
...We love it here.
Everybody loves me.
You guys are alright, I know.
You guys, I am born. I am alive.
Redeemed.
Okay, I am reborn.
In Gastown https://vimeo.com/171884106 #DTES #HumanRights