Upcoming Events
Carnegie Housing Action Lunch
Fridays at noon
@Carnegie Community Centre 3rd floor classroom
This is a weekly meeting hosted for residents of the DTES who are driven to fight for a compassionate, community-centred approach to ending houselessness in the DTES. We will talk about and plan actions to educate and agitate for changes in the housing system that prioritize good housing for those who are economically excluded in society, as well as identify emerging government policies that may interfere with that goal. If you have any questions, contact us via our email.
Past Events
Art Build for Housing March
Wednesday April 24th; 5-8:30pm
@Carnegie Community Theatre
Bring your wit and creativity to an art build in preparation for the March for Housing on Hastings happening May 4th. We’ll have paint, markers, signs, and banners to decorate with slogans and messages that show the urgent need for massive increases in shelter rate housing and a humanizing of people in this society. This work can be pretty dang depressing, but it’s creative and fun spaces like this where we can unwind and be reminded that we aren’t alone in this struggle. Supplies and snack provided. Email us if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!
March for Housing on Hastings
Saturday May 4th; 11am at 140 e Hastings st
Join this community-led march down Hastings to see examples of where we could push for new housing and shelters for those who need it most. There will be speakers from the community 7 stops along the march to highlight a specific housing issue or vision for what we’re working toward. We’ll have a BBQ and raffle at Oppenheimer where the march will end. This is a non-violent event, so please respect your neighbours and don’t engage with police or hecklers. Marshals and a police liason will be present to keep the event safe.
Carnegie Housing Town Hall #6
Keeping on the gas for an urgent housing response
Wednesday May 22nd 5:30PM-7:30PM @ The Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, located on the main floor
Following the May 4th March for Homes on Hastings event, we want to come back together with those who joined us and those who couldn’t make it to talk about next steps to get a crisis-level response from government to the current housing situation. There are 3 DTES buildings that we want to pressure the government to speed up building 100% shelter rate housing in, modulars that we want used to house people in Vancouver, a battle for Province-wide vacancy control, support needed for Community Land Trusts, a massive change to the definition of social housing that could potentially house everyone who’s currently unhoused before 2030, and the need for shelters and other options for 2,000 unsheltered people before next Winter. It’s a loaded deck and we’ll need to go about playing it with a lot of care, wit, and coordination.