Downtown Eastside
Why are Vancouverites so afraid of homeless people?
August 1, 2018Written by: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer At the end of last year, the City of Vancouver faced backlash and protests when one of the locations for its temporary homeless housing project was claimed to be too close to an elementary school. The location in question was 650 West 57th Ave. in Marpole, making it close to Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School and Sir Wilfrid Laurier Elementary School. Distraught parents were protesting with signs that had slogans such as “right idea, wrong location.” According to CBC News, this spring, a few homeless people have had to decline the offer of…
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Study finds bail ‘no-go’ zones block access to harm-reduction services
November 8, 2017A recent study shows that the bail conditions placed on alleged offenders — especially drug users — are preventing access to harm-reduction services in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. SFU geography professor Nicholas Blomley and master’s student William Damon recently…
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Gentrification: The Changing Demographic of the Downtown Eastside
July 1, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic “Hey, do you like Earl’s?” asks a man with a ragged and unkempt appearance, offering me a $25 gift card to Earl’s that he had gotten while panhandling: he tells me how he had gone to an…
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Penny for your thoughts
January 23, 2012What to consider before giving change to the homeless in Vancouver By Kelly Thoreson “Panhandling isn’t a very lucrative career,” Thomas explained as we sipped warm coffees outside the entrance to Insite, the Downtown Eastside’s supervised injection site. “Well, for…
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