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Homes For All

Hastings Tent City Residents Decamped While City Under Weather Warning

The City’s enforcement of this bylaw is constitutionally suspect, as it is being undertaken without due consideration of the human rights and social conditions of Hastings Tent City Residents.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 29, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Winter Housing Plan for People Who Shelter in Public Space

We write as seasonal weather changes take place, to inquire about housing plans from the city, province, and federal government for people who shelter in public space, including for the residents of the Hastings Tent City. Members of Our Streets have worked with Block Stewards, leaders and organizers who reside in the Hastings Street Tent City, to develop demands that reflect their housing needs: • Hands off tent cities • A real public option for housing • Real fire safety • Make landlords fix buildings • Protect all tenants’ rights under the law • Power to the tenants • Housing now
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Judicial Review of the Fire Order issued by Vancouver Fire Rescue Services in late July 2022

PRESS RELEASE - Residents of the Hastings Street tent city (represented by the law firm Arvay Finlay LLP) sought a Judicial Review of the Fire Order issued by Vancouver Fire Rescue Services in late July 2022. The review of this Fire Order and the City of Vancouver’s enforcement actions highlight the gross disparities that people who rely on public space face as they seek shelter in the community now known as the Hastings Tent City.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Oct 03, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All

#StopTheSweeps Denounces the Forced Decampment of Hastings Tent City and City/Police Campaign of Terror in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

MEDIA ADVISORY - #StopTheSweeps Denounces the Forced Decampment of Hastings Tent City and City/Police Campaign of Terror in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Aug 16, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All

Hastings Tent City Residents Give City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services an Overall "E" Grade

Hastings Tent City Residents give City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services an overall "E" grade + Fact Sheet which highlight myths and misunderstandings created by City, VFRS and VPD.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Aug 09, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Letters & Statements, Homes For All, Blog

OUR STREETS - Statement on Hastings Street Tent City Fire Order

When Our Streets asked questions related to what kinds of housing options will be offered to tent city residents they were met with no response. No plan has been formulated by the city other than decamping the tent city, leaving residents with no place to go and violating the city’s MOU on decampment (“Support for Unsheltered Residents – Memorandum of Understanding between City of Vancouver, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, and Provincial Government”).
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jul 27, 2022 | Anti-Stigma, Project Inclusion, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Targeted Violence Against Unhoused Neighbours in so-called Langley City and the Township of Langley

Today is truly a tragic reminder of the stigma that fuels the hatred and violence towards our most marginalized members of society. Our hearts are with unhoused individuals who are victimized through direct and political violence. We denounce the conditions that manufacture poverty and homelessness - including white supremacy, settler colonialism, anti-drug user and anti-homeless stigma.
By Nina Taghaddosi Nina Taghaddosi | Jul 25, 2022 | Anti-Stigma, Project Inclusion, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Joint letter to council on SRO vacancy control regulations

We urge Council to take this opportunity to begin addressing the City’s legacy of homelessness, eviction, displacement, and gentrification in the Downtown Eastside.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 15, 2021 | Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Power, control & erosion of rights: the politics of BC’s complex care “housing”

Nicole Luongo outlines the pitfalls of the “Complex Care housing” model that is widely-touted by provincial and municipal governments in BC
By Nicole Luongo Nicole Luongo | Nov 03, 2021 | Blog, Homes For All

“They know people don’t know their rights”: Daily street sweeps displace & dispossess unhoused DTES residents

Street sweeps are conducted every morning in the DTES. We must end this dehumanizing practice!
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Homes For All
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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