Homelessness solutions from creative young people
The Pivot Legal Society recently held an essay competition asking young people to submit their ideas for solving homelessness -- another original concept from the group that initiated the Downtown Eastside calendar featuring photos taken by local residents.
[Vancouver Sun City States Blog, April 30, 2008]

Three authors release essays on how to solve homelessness in Vancouver
The contest was proposed by the Pivot Legal Society, an advocacy organization that works in the Downtown Eastside.
[The Canadian Press, April 29, 2008]

Black eye for Vancouver 2010 at World Sport and Environment Conference?
This prospect has people like Wendy Pedersen, of the Carnegie Community Action Project and David Eby of the Pivot Legal Society rubbing their hands in anticipation.
[The Province Lord of the Rings Blog, April 29, 2008]

Pictures tell hard stories and happy ones
Editors of a new book collected photographers' stories - and stayed invisible
For several years now, the Pivot Legal Society has been empowering residents of Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside neighbourhood by handing out disposable cameras for an annual photo contest and collecting the pictures they take in an annual calendar.
[Vancouver Sun, April 25, 2008]

DTES condo project panned
She said statistics provided to Pivot Legal Society by Cameron Gray, director of the city's housing centre, show that the number of new market units to be constructed in the Downtown Eastside between 2005 and 2010 outnumber non-market singles three to one.
[Vancouver Courier, April 25, 2008]

'This Is Me, Take It or Leave It'
To Levesque, the photographs taken by area residents for Pivot Legal Society's Hope in Shadows project are "a collector's item, because what's down here, in the next 10 years, it's going to totally change."
[The Tyee, April 24, 2008]

On editorial independence and Vanoc's new deal with Canwest
David Eby, the Pivot Legal Society lawyer who writes a blog sarcastically called "The Official Vancouver 2010 Olympics Newswire" but which was once called "David Eby's Rant Blog", had this to say.
[Vancouver Sun blog "Inside the Olympics Vancouver Sun reporter Jeff Lee's look and the 2010 Winter Olympics", April 23, 2008]

A neighbourhood speaks - and hears its own voice
The book, which comes out next month, grew from a popular program run over the past five years by the Pivot Legal Society, a non-profit legal advocacy organization based in the neighbourhood.
[Globe and Mail, April 21, 2008]

BC's Homeless Death Toll: 56 or More in Two Years
"Our governments are culpable for these preventable deaths," said David Eby, an attorney at Pivot Legal Society. "People are literally dying in the streets."
[The Tyee, April 17, 2008]

B.C. transit cops' Taser use criticized
"I think it's a completely disproportionate and illegal use of force," said John Richardson of the Pivot Legal Society.
[Toronto Star, April 16, 2008]

VANOC Antes up for Shelter
"Two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars is chump change for VANOC," said David Eby, a housing advocate and attorney who represents displaced tenants in the Downtown Eastside.
[The Tyee, April 15, 2008]

Homeless advocates laud millions for youth shelter, but say much more needed
David Eby of Pivot Legal Society, a legal advocacy group in the city's tough Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, called the funding a Band-Aid for provincial government policies that have failed youth.
[Canadian Press, April 14, 2008]

Groups seek to shame Vancouver
The complaint, by three groups, including the Pivot Legal Society, will be mailed to the UN this morning. It is expected to take two years and will not have a legally binding conclusion.
[Metro, April 14, 2008]

BRITISH COLUMBIA: Housing activists take fight to UN
The complaint will be launched formally by the Pivot Legal Society, the Impact on Community Coalition and the Carnegie Community Action Project -- activists who have been critical of the impact of the 2010 Olympics on the supply of low-cost housing.
[Ottawa Citizen, April 14, 2008]

Vancouver groups take housing complaint to UN

Michael Byers, a University of British Columbia professor, and two of his students, Mike Powar and Gayle Stewart, initiated the complaint, which was then taken up by the Impact on Communities Coalition, the Carnegie Community Action Project and the Pivot Legal Society.
[CBC Online, April 13, 2008]