Carnegie Housing Project and its organizers frequently speak to the media and write articles about the reality of housing needs in the DTES.
Keep scrolling to read a selection of press coverage or jump down to see our news releases and government submissions
Media inquiries can be directed to carnegiehousingproject@gmail.com. Please include your deadline!
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.
Carnegie Housing Project news releases and government submissions
2026-04-16 • Submission to The House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities re: Bill C-20, An Act respecting the establishment of Build Canada Homes
2026-02-04 • The DTES needs housing, not police!
2025-11-03 • City considering proposal to gentrify the poorest part of the Downtown Eastside while ignoring homelessness