BC’s Real Social Housing Numbers
Seth Klein explains that over the past 8 years, the BC Liberal Government has only built 418 units per year of new social housing stock, nowhere near the number of units required in this province to deal with the current housing crisis. As Seth mentions, “By comparison, between the mid 1970s and the early 1990s,...
Redeye Collective talks to the Coalition on Vancouver Cooperative Radio
Cecily Nicholson (long-time community organizer in the Downtown Eastside) and Connor Donnegan (activist with the Vancouver Renters Union) speak with Redeye host Peter Driftmier about the Social Housing Coalition BC. New coalition forms to campaign for affordable housing in B.C. By Redeye Collective | February 11, 2013
Coleman Responds to the Coalition’s News Conference
On Monday, February 4th, 2013, the Social Housing Coalition held a press conference to demand 10,000 units of social housing per year for the over 100,000 homeless and under-housed in BC. Kelvin Bee (Kwakwaka’wakw elder with Aboriginal Front Door Society) acknowledged that we were speaking on Unceded Coast Salish territory: Musqueum, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish nations, and...
Social Housing Coalition BC in the News!
Photo by Jason Lang, from the Royal City Record. The STAND for Social Housing at the corner of Sixth and Sixth in New Westminster on January 12, 2013 was covered by the Royal City Record. It was organized by the local chapter of ACORN Canada. Read the full article here: Rally for housing draws crowd...
