The City of Saanich has applied for a Supreme Court injunction to displace Camp Namegans, a two-month-old, Indigenous-led tent city that has provided a home for over 90 people who were previously dispersed across Saanich and Victoria.
Banning people from sheltering in specific outdoor locations does nothing to address homelessness – it only makes public spaces more hostile to poor, racialized, and Indigenous people.
Alliance Against Displacement strongly opposes the proposed VicPD budget increase of almost $2.5 million, much of which will be dedicated to criminalizing low-income, Indigenous, and racialized people.
Subject: Refuse the police budget increase - Defund the police to build homes and community controlled social programs To: Victoria City Council and Police Board From: Alliance Against Displacement [...]
This morning, Alliance Against Displacement occupied the BC Housing office, demanding that the Province cancel the injunction against Super InTent City, and start building 10,000 units of social housing across BC every year until homelessness is over.
On the weekend of June 11-12, 2016 Alliance Against Displacement organized a gathering of leaders of homeless and evicted peoples’ movements throughout southern British Columbia.
By V. Adams Originally published in The Volcano With a vacancy rate approaching zero, a fast dwindling rental housing stock, and low interest rates encouraging the growth of luxury [...]
This year anti-displacement activists have begun organizing between tent cities, building a stronger, united movement of communities experiencing different forms of housing crisis and displacement pressures.
By Ivan Drury Originally published in The Volcano The tents set up on the lawn of the Campbell River City Hall looked like a tent city, and the space [...]
By Ivan Drury and Ashley MollisonOriginally published in The VolcanoIt felt like a major victory when, this spring, the courts refused to grant an injunction to the Provincial government to [...]
