[Viva] FW: Media advisory: Pushed Out, escalating rents in the Downtown Eastside

[Tami S.]

From: Carnegie Action [mailto:carnegie.action at shawlink.ca] 
Sent: September-20-10 1:11 PM
To: carnegie.action at shawlink.ca
Subject: Media advisory: Pushed Out, escalating rents in the Downtown
Eastside

 

Media advisory

Carnegie Community Action Project

 

Pushed Out, escalating rents in the Downtown Eastside 

 

The Carnegie Community Action Project will release its third annual hotel
report at a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 21st at 10 am in front of the
Columbia Hotel at Cordova and Columbia Streets.

 

Called, Pushed Out, escalating rents in the Downtown Eastside, the report
will inform readers:

   How many privately owned SRO hotel rooms are left that rent for the
welfare shelter allowance of $375 per month;

   How many rooms are renting for over $500;

   What is the vacancy rate in privately owned sro's.

 

The report also suggests some reasons that homelessness has not been reduced
in the last few years and makes action recommendations.

 

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Contact Wendy Pedersen at 604 839 0379 or Jean Swanson at 604 729 2380.

   

 

 

 

 

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