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.
Housing advocates not in favour of Vancouver’s rezoning plan for Downtown Eastside
CHP interview with CBC’s On The Coast
What [this rezoning] is really overlooking — and actually City staff acknowledged this — is that the current zoning has been really successful in creating thousands of units of social housing in the last decade.
Townhall in response to Vancouver mayor's plan to stop new supportive housing in DTES
CHP quoted on CBC Radio’s On The Coast
The question is: revitalize it for whom? DTES is full of people who’ve been excluded from everywhere else around the city because they can’t afford to live there.