[Wamvan] Today! “Occupy Condos: Take Pantages”

[Harsha W.]

Occupy Condos: Take the Pantages!

Tuesday November 29th at 4 pm till 6 pm
152 East Hastings (near Main and Hastings)
Warm food served.


Web link:
http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/occupy-condos-take-the-pantages/
FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/245975415464285/

Condo Developer Marc Williams wants to build expensive market housing at
the old Pantages Site in the Downtown Eastside. Condos in the heart of the
neighbourhood will cause higher property values, higher rents in
single-room occupancies, displacement of current residents, increased
policing, and low-income residents feeling unwelcome in their own
neighbourhood.

We are tired and angry that the City and real estate developers are being
complicit in escalating rents and gentrification instead of building and
protecting safe and affordable low-incoming housing. The corporate
developers that bankroll City Council are the 1% in our city that hold
disproportionate political and economic power and want to make millions of
dollars in profit. Meanwhile more people are displaced from low-income
housing in the Downtown Eastside and Vancouver’s has become one of the
most unaffordable cities for poor, low-income, racialized, seniors, youth,
single mothers, and working people in the world.

On Tuesday November 29th we are calling for a mass action for people to
occupy and take back pantages for the low-income community. The DTES is
not for developers!

Organized by Stop the Pantages Condos Coalition which includes Citywide
Housing Coalition, DTES Neighbourhood Council, DTES Power of Women Group,
Streams of Justice, UBC Social Justice Centre, Vancouver Area Network of
Drug Users.

Website: http://dtesnotfordevelopers.wordpress.com/

#occupycondos
#dtesnot4developers
#occupythehood


-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
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