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SAVE SOCIAL HOUSING AT LITTLE MOUNTAIN Vancouver’s oldest social housing complex - 224 homes on 15 acres beside Queen Elizabeth Park - is slated for redevelopment. The publicly owned site is being sold to the highest bidder, who will want expensive market housing. Tenants are being pressured to leave so the developer gets ‘vacant possession’, even though construction won’t start before 2010. As of March 2008, over 170 homes are empty at Little Mountain. 1, 2, and 3-bedroom apartments are vacant while thousands in Vancouver are homeless and dying in our streets, parks, and alleys. A well-functioning community where people have supported each other for decades is being destroyed. Their former homes could be temporary housing for hundreds of adults and children in desperate need. Instead, our governments have decided to demolish habitable buildings as they become vacant! It is a scandal to leave homes empty while thousands of people sleep on our streets. Tell our governments:
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