Knock me over with a feather. NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release 2012PREM0131-001630 Oct. 23, 2012 Office of the Premier Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Minister Responsible for Housing City of Vancouver Four New Temporary Cold-weather Shelters in Vancouver VANCOUVER – The B.C. government and the City of Vancouver will open four additional […]
Entries Tagged as 'Homelessness'
Province gives Vancouver winter shelter beds, transition housing dollars before a single story written about standoff between the two
October 23rd, 2012 · 19 Comments
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Vancouver about to kick off a rent bank to reduce homelessness
March 21st, 2012 · 8 Comments
Like Surrey, Prince George and Toronto, Vancouver is about to start a small rent bank, kicking in $150,000 of the total cost, with $350,000 coming from Streetohome, the private-sector group working on homelessness, and others. The bank is aimed at helping prevent homelessness by providing small loans to people to help them get or retain […]
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New Vancouver approach will target housing to neighbourhoods with most homeless
August 8th, 2011 · 3 Comments
The city’s 35-page housing plan is rich with tantalizing one-liners about new things that are going to be tried to create affordable housing for working people squeezed out of the market and homeless people just squeezed. I’m working my way through, line by line, and came across one on page 31 that said five neighbourhoods […]
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For housing wonks: The housing/homelessness powerpoint for Vancouver
February 2nd, 2011 · 66 Comments
Lots of interesting info from the presentation on housing and homelessness yesterday, currently only in PP form, no report.
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City re-opens shelter under Granville Bridge
January 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment
As indicated by media reports earlier this year (Mike Howell in the Courier, I think), the city is re-opening one of the two shelters under the Granville Bridge. This time, it will be open 24 hours, which is intended to prevent the line-ups and crowd mayhem that nearby condo residents objected to last time. Presumably […]
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New shelter for women and children opened at 625 Powell
November 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Just back from the announcement about the new emergency shelter opening in the Downtown Eastside, an unusual one in that the building and cost of renos were donated by mainly by businesses, with the provincial government providing the money to run the shelter. AND all the permits and work got done in a miraculous seven […]
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Five ideas from Europe for Vancouver
July 5th, 2009 · 44 Comments
There’s nothing more tempting when travelling around Europe to look at some beautiful aspect of city life or another and think, “Why can’t Vancouver be more like this?” I had that thought frequently in Bologna, where I recently spent part of a week. It was my first time in Italy and my partner and I […]
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Down with the car, Part XXXIV: Less parking downtown
June 5th, 2009 · 90 Comments
I’m surprised no one has picked up on this, but amid the raft of reports about closing down streets, rapid-bus lanes and you name it, there’s also this report from crazy busy report-writing crew over in engineering. It recommends reducing the minimum and maximum required parking spaces to be built in for new commercial and […]
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Ex-Vision board member quits party over Robertson’s Campbell remarks
June 1st, 2009 · 22 Comments
Sean Holman has a doozy of a story in today’s Globe. Sean has a copy of an e-mail from former board member Mike Bruce, announcing he is quitting the party and urging others to do the same, because of the mayor’s silence on explaining to party members why he made comments during the campaign appearing […]
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City hiring freeze likely on to end of year: Ballem memo
May 25th, 2009 · 14 Comments
It’s been a gloomy time around city hall lately, with the hiring freeze having stalled many initiatives in their tracks and hit some departments, which had always operated with a lot of temp-contract people particularly hard. Then there’s been a lot of turmoil, with people leaving or hinting that they’re open to leaving. To provide […]
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