Vancouver's housing crisis goes global at major architectural festival

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Pictures of Downtown Eastside encampments featured at Canadian pavilion in Venice event

Inside the Canadian Pavillion at the architectural festival, the Biennale Archittetura, which kicked off in Venice, Italy this week. Photo credit: Maris Mezulis.In the Downtown Eastside, more than 570 structures have been removed from an East Hastings Street encampment since August. Only 90 of the residents have found permanent housing, according to the city.

“Some people can’t believe it when we tell them those tents are in Downtown Vancouver,” Watson said. “We want Canada’s housing crisis to no longer be kept silent. As a wealthy nation, having these issues is unacceptable.” “Our goal is to provide a suitable alternative to living in a tent, when the municipal shelter system is not an option,” the group says.

It is pushing for senior governments to return more Crown land – which was historically stripped from Indigenous peoples – so that communities can afford to build housing upon it. Latest estimates indicate 94 per cent of British Columbian land is publicly owned.

 

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