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SUMMARY:The Future of Social Housing in Vancouver - A Roundtable Discu
 ssion
DESCRIPTION:Saturday, June 16, 2012 1:00pm until 3:00pm\nDouglas Park 
 Community Centre, 801 West 22nd Avenue\nThe Future of Social Housing i
 n Vancouver: Struggles from Little Mountain to Heather Place | PANEL D
 ISCUSSION\nFacebook Event Page here.\nIn the midst of an unprecedented
  housing crisis, Vancouver is at risk of losing Heather Place, a commu
 nity in central Vancouver housing more than two hundred residents and 
 families. To quote a long-time resident, “Heather Place is a communi
 ty to be proud of, an example of how people can and should live.”\nU
 nfortunately, instead of investing in needed repairs, the municipal go
 vernment has identified Heather Place as a site for condo development.
  New “replacement” housing will cost more than twice the current r
 ents. Project leaders like Geoff Meggs and Don Littleford have been vo
 cal advocates for the path of gentrification, despite continual lip se
 rvice paid to Vancouver’s housing crisis.\nLuckily, it is not too la
 te to stop the destruction of the Heather Place community. The goal of
  this roundtable is to provide some of the background facts and contex
 t needed to help save Heather Place:\n• Unpack the unfolding situati
 on at Heather Place, especially the impact of gentrification and redev
 elopment on low-income tenants. • Draw lessons from the recent past:
  the destruction of the Little Mountain community and the false promis
 es at the Olympic Village.\n• Provide an overview of how old lines o
 f public funding, won through the housing struggles of previous genera
 tions, are rapidly disappearing.\n• Look to models in other parts of
  the world with robust public housing programs.\nTo save Heather Place
  and develop new alternatives, tenants cannot sit back and rely on the
  goodwill of governments and planners. We’ve gone two decades withou
 t a national housing program, while other levels of government have su
 cceeded in a game of “passing the buck.”\nLocal governments have t
 aken the withdrawal of federal funding as a license for a reckless age
 nda of further privatization and neoliberal entrenchment. Politicians 
 from all parties have pursued the demolition of public housing, using 
 a war chest of planning tools to encourage the gentrification of Vanco
 uver’s most affordable neighbourhoods.\nIn the face of the dramatic 
 failure of private partnerships, broken promises, ineffective advocacy
  and timid lobbying, the alternative is found in renters themselves, t
 he only group capable of organizing against the exploitative rent econ
 omy and its endless corrupt governments. Tenant empowerment and educat
 ion is the starting point for a new step in the collective struggle fo
 r housing justice in the 21st century.\nPanelists:\n• Nathan Crompto
 n: “Unpacking Heather Place” • Maria Wallstam: “Present Crisis
 : Expiry of Public Funding in BC”\n• Elvin Wyly: “The Gentrifica
 tion of Social Housing”\n• Jean Swanson: “The Need for a BC Soci
 al Housing Coalition”\n• Sean Antrim: “What’s Possible: Social
  Housing in Red Vienna”\nFacilitated by Barry Growe, Community Advoc
 ates for Little Mountain (CALM)\n1- 3 PM, June 16th, 2012\nDouglas Par
 k Community Centre, 801 West 22nd Avenue\nWheelchair accessible, child
 care provided on-site\n\nFor more information visit http://villagevanc
 ouver.org/events/the-future-of-social-housing-in-vancouver-panel-discu
 ssion
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CATEGORIES:main, street, douglas, park, roundtable, forum, panel, free
 , housing, affordability
LOCATION:Douglas Park Community Centre
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CONTACT:Vancouver Renter's Union & BC Social Housing Coalition
ORGANIZER;CN="Randy Chatterjee":http://villagevancouver.org/profile/Ra
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