[news] Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Seeks Foreign Aid

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

**The Carnegie Community Action Project** (CCAP) met with United Nations representative **Miloon Kothari** this week and appealed to the UN to intervene on behalf of homeless people in the Downtown Eastside. After detailing the failure of federal and provincial governments to provide social housing, CCAP organizer **Jean Swanson** asked the UN representative whether "there's another country that could donate housing" to Canada. Swanson's presentation also detailed how two of the richest jurisdictions in the world are violating the human rights of its poor and homeless residents.

  


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