[Dnfd_announce] Important townhall Wednesday about the condo proposal across from Raycam

[Ivan Drury]

**community town hall forum**

HOUSING OR HOMELESSNESS?
A townhall about the condo towers proposed across the street from Raycam

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10
6:30PM
RUSSIAN HALL
(600 Campbell - 3 blocks south of Hastings)

Speakers:
Stella August, DTES Power of Women group
Scott Clark, Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement (ALIVE)
Hendrik Hoekema, Inner City Economic Strategy
Jean Swanson, Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP)
Karen Ward, Gallery Gachet and Woodward’s Social Housing resident

A major condo development is being planned for the 900 block of East
Hastings right across the street from Raycam community centre. City
planners are calling it the model that future developments will be
based on. But what does it offer the majority low-income people who
live in the neighbourhood around it; at the Astoria, Woodbine, St Elmo
and Vernon hotels and at the major Stamps Place BC Housing complex
behind Raycam?

Will low-income families and individuals get housed there? Will we get
shops and services we can afford and that welcome us? Will this
project threaten to push low-income people out through higher land
values and rents?

This event is urgent because the rezoning proposal for the development
is scheduled to be a heard at city hall as early as Tuesday October
16. Submit a comment on the project by writing to
mayorandcouncil at vancouver.ca regarding rezoning proposal at 955 E
Hastings. To sign up to speak at this public hearing call 604-829-4238
or email publichearing at vancouver.ca

Come to this community dialogue co-organized by ALIVE and the DTES Not
for Developers Coalition. These two groups will present different
community views about this condo project with panel speakers,
background summaries, and question-and-answer discussion.

Highlights to be broadcast by W2TV on Shaw cable 4 and Media Mornings
on Coop Radio.

Organized by:  ALIVE: Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement |
www.aboriginalvoice.com
and DTES Not for Developers Coalition |
http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com