By turning public land devoted to noisy, dangerous, and polluting vehicles into social housing it is possible to put a dent into runaway climate change while improving housing affordability.
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A novel solution to the health crisis of homelessness: get people into homes. Upstream Radio interviews Saskatchewan MP Sheri Benson.
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Vancouver Tenants Union members Kell Gerlings and Neil Vokey talk about justice for tenants in an impossibly difficult city for renters.
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Six-minute answers to the question, "Can society fix itself?" A collection of ideas from solutions-focused B.C. media-makers.
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Jean Swanson and Aiden Sisler talk about anti-poverty activist Swanson’s movement-powered campaign for a seat on Vancouver city council.
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The world is changed when we all work together. But how do we do that? A look at ways to organize people at the national, provincial and local levels.
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Housing advocates say the redevelopment process for B.C.'s oldest social housing site has failed the residents because it broke up a vibrant community.
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What Little Mountain taught us about the BC government and the fight for affordable housing
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In hard times populism, which basically embodies the comprehensible anger of the majority, stands ready, but requires an outlet.
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British Columbians are in desperate need of affordable housing, higher social assistance rates and public school funding. Instead the government is spending a budget windfall on paying down the debt.
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A Canadian activist guide to fight for food, shelter, the environment and peace this holiday.
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Housing policy would benefit from a socioeconomic perspective that remains mindful of both macroeconomic factors and factors pertaining to Canada's social welfare system in general.
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A Canadian activist guide to fight for food, shelter, the environment and peace this holiday.
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New zoning in Burnaby will result in the demolition of entire Housing activists says thousands of renters are facing displacement and homelessness.
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Canada's federal government has begun national consultations on the development of a "national housing strategy." The government is expected to release a report Nov. 22, which is National Housing Day.
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After residents set up a tent city in the downtown eastside and held a day of action on housing justice, Mayor Robertson agreed social housing with 100 per cent low-income rents at 58 West Hastings.
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This episode of GroundWire was produced at Community Radio Station CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty One territory.
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"When we look at homelessness in Canada, it is a crisis. It is an emergency." Alyse Kotyk reports on Tent City in Victoria and its implications across Canada.
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A new study using data from the National Household Survey shows 60% of Indigenous children on reserve live below the poverty line. We speak with Mary Teegee of the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society.
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Alliance Against Displacement staged an occupation of the B.C. Housing office to demand the government address Vancouver's growing homelessness crisis.
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A coalition of 30 housing advocate groups from across Canada went to Geneva in February to speak before a UN human rights committee. Kenneth Hale was part of the delegation.
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Vancouver's out-of-control housing market has exported its absurdities to Victoria. What used to be a refuge from exorbitant living costs has now become a nightmare.
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The Province of B.C. is in court on Friday to seek an injunction against remaining campers of Victoria's Super InTent City. Campers and supporters of tent city say this is exactly what not to do.
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10,000 refugees have arrived in Canada. H.O.M.E. links them with needed resources.
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