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'Breaking down boundaries': After 21 years, founders of DTES Heart of the City Festival recall lively neighbourhood
If you’re looking for the roots of the DTES Heart of the ... year in 2004, the festival has prided itself on not just giving ...
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“Devastating” Oppenheimer Park decampments disrupt vital Downtown Eastside support networks
The City of Vancouver’s latest effort to break up encampments in local parks is “devastating,” says Gary Davison. The community liaison for Downtown Eastside grassroots organization Heart ...
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Vancouver to transform Downtown Eastside by pausing supportive housing, cracking down on crime
“The Downtown Eastside reflects our city’s resilience, but also its struggles,” Sim said at the Save Our Streets Forum. “For too long, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent ...
Toronto Star29d
Vancouver mayor plans freeze on new supportive housing in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has unveiled a plan to revitalize the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside that includes pausing the construction of net new supportive housing units. He said he wants to ...
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B.C. housing minister says Vancouver's plan for Downtown Eastside could increase crime
B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's new plan for the Downtown Eastside will make the ... new supportive housing in the city and what he calls a "crackdown" on gangs.
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Vancouver mayor proposes pause on new supportive housing in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has unveiled a plan to revitalize the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside that includes pausing the construction of net new supportive housing units. He said he wants to ...