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page = " Today´s date: " + b + " "+tDay+", " + tYear+". Two backhoes began taking down the external walls of buildings on
Friday, November 6th. Twenty-five protesters arrived on 60
minutes’ notice and remained
throughout the morning to communicate with passersby and reporters. The
first buildings being demolished are at the northern border of the 15-acre
complex, raising the possibility that the area will be paved and used as a
parking lot for the Olympic curling venue two blocks away. CALM will continue to advocate for a change in the plans for
redevelopment of the site, which currently call for a replacement of the
224 units built in 1953 plus as many condominiums and market-level rentals
as Vancouver City Hall will allow. CALM is calling for a minimum of 750
rent-geared-to-income units. CALM urges you to make your opinion known on the urgent need for affordable
housing. Letters to the editor and calls to radio talk shows make a
difference: CBC radio talkback number: 604-662-6690
News Release CALM For immediate release November 6, 2009 / 7:45AM
Wrecking ball starts today to
destroy Little Mountain Housing NEVER AGAIN! The destruction of Little Mountain is
a disaster that must never be repeated! The needless and senseless
destruction of a well-functioning community and habitable homes, years
before construction can begin, is a major setback for affordable housing
in our city. It is wrong to destroy a
vibrant supportive community. This will be a phased development; with
proper planning, tenants could have moved to one part of the site while
the other part was being re-developed. It is wrong to needlessly
destroy affordable housing. Our city is in the midst of the worst housing
crisis in history. Affordable rentals keep disappearing at a phenomenal
rate and families with low and modest incomes are leaving the city in
droves. It is unconscionable to remove 224 affordable homes for a period
of several years. It is wrong to put the greed of developers before the
housing needs of our people. It is wrong to sell public
land. Vancouver does not need hundreds of high priced condos
– what we do need is a community with 2 or 3
times as many social housing units and additional affordable housing for
working class and middle class families. While half of the proceeds
may be invested in supportive housing elsewhere (not affordable family
housing), permanent assets (land) are being replaced by temporary assets
(buildings). The only way to build affordable housing at affordable cost
is to build on public land. It is short-sighted and ill-conceived to fund
supportive housing out of the proceeds of selling public land. Now, there
will never be additional affordable housing on the site. We need policies that ensure this will
not happen again. Several other social housing complexes in Vancouver are
slated for "re-development". These sites must remain in public hands and
be developed in a way that leaves the existing communities intact and
ensures that any re-development consists of affordable homes (geared to
income). CONTACT: Little Mountain Fact Sheet The demolition of the 224 homes at
Little Mountain is going ahead. The needless destruction of a
well-functioning community and habitable homes, years before construction
can begin, is a setback for affordable housing in our city and
represents a return to long-discredited "urban renewal" practices. By
choosing to redevelop Little Mountain in this way, our governments have
made a major mistake that must never be repeated. Little Mountain is no "win" for the
tenants. The remaining tenants have all received eviction notices, in
spite of the impression given by our Mayor. They will be able to move into
one building just long enough to watch the demolition of their homes and
their community and will then have to vacate the site. In fact, the
only guarantee the tenants have from BC Housing is that they will have to
move again if they choose to stay on-site while the demolition
proceeds. This is all for the benefit of the developer (Holborn) who was a
major financial contributor to Vision Vancouver. Contrary to the Mayor's statements,
affordable housing at Little Mountain is not being "maximized".
There will be no increase in the number of social housing units.
One-for-one replacement is not good enough given the need for affordable
housing and the dramatic density increase that will occur at this site.
The City of Vancouver usually requires that 20% of a major development be
reserved for additional affordable housing. At Little Mountain the City
will be contravening its own policies, as the number of social housing
units will comprise around 10% of the planned new development. The Mayor has announced that
high-density re-zoning of the site will proceed despite the
Council-approved Community Vision for a four-storey limit (already
more than quadruple the existing density). This is a betrayal of the
commitment to the community by City Council, the Province and the
developer for an "extensive" public planning process to examine all policy
options prior to considering a rezoning proposal. Community consultation has yet to
happen. Construction will not start until well after the Olympics. The
site will be developed in phases and presumably the 224 social housing
units will be replaced in phase one. That will take a minimum of two
years. In the meantime, the rest of the site will sit empty. During
this period, Little Mountain could have housed many families. Instead, it is being obliterated for
the convenience of a private developer who has stated that it is "easier"
for his purposes to destroy all of the homes now, rather than have the
homes occupied until he is ready to build. The great shame of the Little
Mountain fiasco is that it is so ill-conceived and unnecessary. The
entire process at Little Mountain has been about destruction: of
existing affordable housing; of future affordable housing; of
community; of people’s lives.
Saturday April 4, 2009 Help Bring Back a Federal Social Housing Program Canada is the only major country in the world without
a national housing strategy, spending even less than half what the US spends on
housing programs per capita. What We Want From Our Federal Government What Municipalities Must Do About Affordable Housing
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The beginning of the end of Little Mountain
Housing
Media response of the first day of
demolition was extensive: Global TV, CBCTV, CTV, CKNW, The Tyee,
Fairchild, The Sun, the Courier and 24 Hours. See links:
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=4fe11a46-5cd0-40d9-8965-a78a14bf422c
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2009/11/06/pf-11664476.html
sunletters@png.canwest.com
provletters@png.canwest.com
letters@straight.com
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Housing/2009/11/06/Demolition-begins-at-Little-Mountain/ (you can comment on this article on
line)
CKNW radio
comment line: 604-331-2784
The Courier: comment online at
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/letters.html
Watch David Vaisbord's YouTube
video,
View Here "The
Truth About Little Mountain."
Protesters block gates and send a message
Protesters’ message to the provincial and city governments:
July 3, 2009
Project Manager to
attend July 4 rally to protest the demolition
Cote attended a government sponsored information
meeting for prospective demolition companies on Tuesday, June 30 and left as
soon as he understood the situation. "We thought these homes were coming down
and would be replaced immediately. We are in the business of making people's
lives better, not ruining them," he said. Clearwater Environmental Group was
one of several demolition companies attending the meeting. The provincial
government required the attendance of any company wanting to bid on the
demolition of the 15 acre site.
"Everyone knows there is not enough
affordable housing. How could you sleep at night after tearing down these
homes for an Olympic parking lot? We want no part of this until there is a
plan," Cote continued.
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BC HOUSING STRIPS LM FURNISHINGS WITHOUT DEMOLITION PERMIT
THEY CAME IN WITH CHAIN SAWS AND REMOVED FURNISHINGS FOR RESALE FROM UNITS next to two occupants at Little Mountain Housing
YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THIS AREA WAS NOT EVEN FENCED
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Marches and rallies by 108 organizations in 17 BC communities
See list...
Colorful, eloquent pleas for Housing as a Human Right Read more...
The artists created a wide variety of pieces—children’s and child-
On December 11th
a work crew posted the art from the
Art-
On December 12th
BC Housing sent the company Goodbye
Graffiti to paint out art that it deemed offensive.
According to BC Housing
12. “Don’t destroy our house”
11. "Poor people need homes too"
10. "Embrace community diversity. Against marginalization"
9. "Shame on our city. Developers cause homelessness"
8. "Would you want to be kicked out of your HOME?"
7. "Society will change the day our politicians are homeless"
6. "House our brothers and sisters"
5. "Put people first, people before profit"
4. "Affordable housing now!"
3. "Can i have my home back now?"
2. "Home is where the heart is, don't break my heart"
And the number one most objectionable statement about affordable housing, according to BC
Housing:
1. "Love still lives here"
On December 15th
CALM held an outdoor gallery opening of “500 metres of Art for Affordable Housing.” Seven media outlets, including radio, television and the press covered the opening and the BC Housing’s obliterations.
While the major responsibility for housing rests with the provincial and federal
governments, city councils control land use policies that can impact the stock
of rental housing and dampen speculation that inflates housing prices.
City governments can:
The 3 top priorities for
voters:
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