Pivot join thousands on Grand March for Housing

Pivot marchers gather at the corner of Main and Hastings for the Grand March for Housing. Pictured are Victor, Mark and Garvin. Photo: kiwipaul

Vancouver, April 6, 2009 - Pivot Legal Society joined thousands of Vancouverites on the Grand March for Housing on Saturday.

The march was a community event sponsored by the Citywide Housing Coalition (www.citywidehousingcoalition.org) and was endorsed by community organizations, housing advocacy groups, political groups, and the TSSU and other labour unions.

The march and the rally hope to raise awareness about and work towards ending homelessness, building permanent social housing, raising welfare and minimum wage rates, and to protect rental housing and renters, especially in the shadow of the 2010 Olympics.

Pivot Legal Society joined the march outside the Carnegie Centre hundreds of local residents were joined by another march which came from further up Main Street.

It was estimated that around 2,500 people then marched up Hastings Street towards Burrard Street and joined about 500 marchers who had set off from Kitsilano.

To see photos by The Blackbird from the march, visit our photo gallery.