The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been, and continues to be, profoundly important to Canadian democracy…. It is virtually unique in its breadth of ideas and its depth of research.
- Ed Broadbent
August 15, 2007
At the Vancouver Art Gallery is the official countdown clock for the
2010 Olympics: there are now well less than one thousand days left
until the opening ceremonies. That may seem like plenty of time, but
for folks concerned about the crisis in affordable housing, there is a
lot of work to be done to get the place in shape.
While there is
lots of housing being built right now, the problem with the current
boom is that almost none of it will be affordable. The mass marketing
campaigns plastered on billboards and in full-page newspaper ads have