HALIFAX – Uniacke Square could become a model for healthy and vibrant, low-income communities if there is a deliberate and strategic program of public investment in community-led revitalization. Instead, Uniacke Square’s future may be uncertain, according to a new study being released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia and Manitoba entitled “Public Housing Risks and Alternatives: Uniacke Square in North End Halifax.”
Housing and homelessness
(Vancouver) A ground-breaking study that for two years followed British Columbians living on welfare paints a disturbing picture of how people are forced to make ends meet under new welfare rules and low rates.
The study was released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Raise the Rates Coalition, as part of the Economic Security Project, a joint CCPA-Simon Fraser University initiative.
With just two years to go before the 2010 Olympics, promises of housing and benefits for low-income people in Vancouver made during the bid process have been forgotten by all three levels of government. Not only are marginalized populations in Vancouver not benefiting from the Games, they are being displaced by punitive new policies targeted at “cleaning up” Vancouver in time for 2010.
Inside this issue:
BC’s Climate Change Strategy and the Fossil Fuel Industry
TILMA: A Major Hurdle to BC Climate Action Plan?
Privatization by Another Name: BC’s Alternative Service Delivery Plan
‘Welfare to Work’ Didn’t Work
The Olympics, Housing and Homelessness in Vancouver
Workplace Rights for Recent Immigrants
Inside this issue:
The Clock is Ticking on Homelessness and the Olympics
Weighing in on What Matters: How BC Ranks on the 2007 Cascadia Scorecard
Field Notes from the Conversation on Health
Public Solutions and Private Interests in BC’s Health Care System
BC Needs to Enforce Health Care Laws
A Tree too Far: BC's Devastating Response to the Pine Beetle Catastrophe
Negotiating Without a Floor: BC's Exclusion of Union Members from Employment Standards
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.