February General Meeting
The Save Low-Income Housing Coalition will be hosting a GENERAL MEETING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH FROM 5-7PM AT 327 CARRALL STREET. We invite organizations interested in strengthening networks and alliances, around housing and homelessness, to stop by.
SLIHC members are engaged in a variety of strategies to address the expanding crisis of homelessness, a lack of affordable housing and poverty in the City of Vancouver. These include: community forums, workshops and outreach; legal action; direct action via protests, marches and building occupations; the provision of emergency services; lobbying; public education materials and media. There is a great deal more that can be done and better communication to be had.
It is evident that all three levels of government are bowing to the interests of business investment and despite a surplus of resources have disregarded the right to homes and the well-being of the most marginalized of our communities. In the Downtown Eastside and other areas the process of gentrification has greatly intensified in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics. This has meant increased displacement, policing and incarceration – as well as the loss of life due to opportunistic illnesses, exposure and neglect. This has disproportionately impacted those concentrated in poor areas: Aboriginal people, new immigrants, seniors, people with disabilities, drug users – and creates especially vulnerable conditions for women and single mothers.
We will continue to work against the imposition of these neoliberal policies and to address the lack of political will to improve the lives of people living in poverty. We welcome those interested in building compassionate communities to join in a more cohesive front demanding affordable housing and the elimination of homelessness.
This will be a facilitated meeting intended as a forum to share information and to network. Onsite childcare and food available.
For more information please contact slihc@shaw.ca
SLIHC members are engaged in a variety of strategies to address the expanding crisis of homelessness, a lack of affordable housing and poverty in the City of Vancouver. These include: community forums, workshops and outreach; legal action; direct action via protests, marches and building occupations; the provision of emergency services; lobbying; public education materials and media. There is a great deal more that can be done and better communication to be had.
It is evident that all three levels of government are bowing to the interests of business investment and despite a surplus of resources have disregarded the right to homes and the well-being of the most marginalized of our communities. In the Downtown Eastside and other areas the process of gentrification has greatly intensified in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics. This has meant increased displacement, policing and incarceration – as well as the loss of life due to opportunistic illnesses, exposure and neglect. This has disproportionately impacted those concentrated in poor areas: Aboriginal people, new immigrants, seniors, people with disabilities, drug users – and creates especially vulnerable conditions for women and single mothers.
We will continue to work against the imposition of these neoliberal policies and to address the lack of political will to improve the lives of people living in poverty. We welcome those interested in building compassionate communities to join in a more cohesive front demanding affordable housing and the elimination of homelessness.
This will be a facilitated meeting intended as a forum to share information and to network. Onsite childcare and food available.
For more information please contact slihc@shaw.ca
posted by slihc at 8:33 AM
