Carnegie Housing Project and its organizers frequently speak to the media and write articles about the reality of housing needs in the DTES.
Media inquiries can be directed to carnegiehousingproject@gmail.com. Please include your deadline!
Keep scrolling to read a selection of press coverage.
A New Plan for the Downtown Eastside Fails Residents
By Gilles Cyrenne, published in The Tyee
This motion radically changes Downtown Eastside zoning bylaws while ignoring complex affordability and health problems that affect all of Vancouver.
Proposed changes to DTES plan risk affordable housing for local residents
OpEd authored by 6 members of the Order of Canada, including Jean Swanson, published in the Vancouver Sun
Ten years ago Vancouver city council adopted a plan to ensure affordable non-market and market rental housing in the Downtown Eastside.
Jean Swanson: An open letter to housing minister Gregor Robertson
By Jean Swanson, published in The Georgia Straight
We’re counting on you to create housing that homeless people can afford.
The federal government’s housing strategy is failing Vancouver’s most vulnerable
By Jean Swanson, published in The Georgia Straight
We agree that continuing to rely on an unregulated, for-profit market cannot be the primary response to address a housing and affordability crisis across Canada.
‘Social Housing’ Is Leaving Low-Income People Out in the Cold
By Jean Swanson, published in The Tyee
All levels of government should align their definition of social housing, at a minimum, to the DTES definition of one-third at shelter rate.
BC housing expert’s theories reveal some appalling problems
By Max Harper Campbell, published in The Georgia Straight
I heard Tom Davidoff speak about housing at an event—and I have to say that I’m appalled. With the Province and the media taking his advice, it’s no wonder we’re on the wrong track.