Cracks in the foundation

They also provided information about the Fourth, we found that affiants were frequently unaware time and location of the sessions to local agencies as well as to of the housing problems they faced, but accepted recurrent residents of the area, through word of mouth and informational difficulties and threats of homelessness as part of their lived posters in public spaces. [...] City of Vancouver (the “City”) Low-Income Housing Survey; the 2004 City DTES Community Monitoring Report; local and methodology national newspaper articles outlining new development and SRO loss in the DTES; the City DTES Housing Plan; the Researchers developed a framework of analysis through an Community Assessment of the 2010 Winter Games and Paralympic extensive review of the relevant gentrific [...] The City also overlooked an additional 415 units lost due to rent inflation.19 Furthermore, since June 2005, the DTES has seen the loss of almost 300 SRO units from the closure of the Pender and the Burns Block hotels and the conversion of the Marble Arch and St. [...] While the City is building a limited number of low-income single deep-core housing units – approximately 270 will be built over the next three years according to the City’s DTES non-market inventory Between 2000 and 2005 the City issued 55 development permits – the number of units slated for construction falls short of that in the Oppenheimer sub-area of the DTES – almost double the necessary to k [...] Two dynamics best explain this: (1) the scarcity of land on the peninsula on which Vancouver’s downtown core is built and (2) the class of housing that encircles and borders the DTES, which primarily serves higher socio-economic groups.23 As a response to the scarcity of land in Vancouver’s downtown core, the City has encouraged development in the DTES by extending heritage grants, tax exemptions