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WHERE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO?

A disembodied fist wearing a blue glove holds a black garbage bag on which OUR STREETS DTES is printed in white block letters. In the style of a crest, a garbage picker-upper and a flower are crossed behind the bag.
This image is taken from the Our Streets Block Stewardship manual and was created by a member of the Stop The Sweeps Coalition.

Hastings Tent City, a Human Rights Emergency ( This is the #StopTheSweeps Campaign Brief for the 2022 Municipal Election) Tent city residents are sheltering in place – not by choice, but for their survival. Faced with dangerous, pest-infested, and fatally isolating conditions in supportive housing and SROs, many must live in community outdoors to stay […]

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Joint statement on Homelessness Action Week 2021

A group of tents next to each other tat the Strathcona Camp KT housing encampment.

October 10-16 marks Homelessness Action Week across BC, including on unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations. This year, annual “Homelessness Action Week” events begin on “Thanksgiving,” a colonial holiday that celebrates the original and ongoing displacement of Indigenous people from their traditional territories. Indigenous people living on the street, […]