BC Housing Plan
This BC Housing site provides basic info about the Memo of Understanding between the City of Vancouver and the province around the building social housing on the 12 city-owned lots.
Streams of Justice
- Streams of Justice
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Streams of Justice meets Monday nights (except holidays) at 7 pm at
Grandview Calvary Baptist Church.
1803 E. 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC.
Check out the SofJ Calendar below for more specifics.
More About Us
Papers and Podcasts
Friends & Blogs
- Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries
- Carnegie Community Action Project
- Dan's blog
- DTES Neighbourhood Council
- Growing Gap
- Homeless Tales
- Homelessness Action week
- Live Simply, Give Generously, Practice Hospitality
- Make Poverty History - Canada
- Pivot Legal Society
- Raise The Rates
- Resist Exploitation, Embrace Dignity (REED)
- Sojourners
- Spectacle Vancouver
- Student Christian Movement
- The Christian Radical
- The Vancouver Catholic Worker
- Vancouver Media Coop
General Resources
- A new and unsettling force: the strategic relevance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign
- Response to Budget 2009 - Citizens For Public Justice
- 2007 Child Poverty Report Card
- A Backgrounder on Housing & Homelessness (CCAP)
- BC Campaign 2000 - Child Poverty (pdf)
- Chapter 1: Poverty and Policy in Canada (pdf)
- City/Province Housing Partnership
- Conversation on Women's Health - 2007 (pdf)
- Cracks in the Foundation: Solving the Housing Crisis in Canada's Poorest Neighbourhood (link)
- Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights (Geneva: COHRE and GIAN)
- Greater Vancouver Homelessness Count
- Homelessness a cause, not a result of drug abuse
- Homelessness in a growth economy: Canada’s 21st century paradox (June 2007 pdf)
- Housing Legacy of the 2010 Games: Report of the Inner City Inclusive Committee Housing Table
- Left Behind - 2005 (pdf)
- Project Civil City (VPSN)
- Report of the Inner-City Inclusive Housing Table
- StatsCan Perspectives on Labour & Income - 2006 (pdf)
- The Cost of Eating in BC - 2006 (pdf)
- The Cost of Eating in BC 2007
- The Rich and the Rest of Us: The Changing Face of Canada's Growing Gap
2010 Olympics
- Council of Canadians: Statement on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
- The Least of These
- Two Incompatible Visions: Jesus and the Olympics, Reflections from Mark 3:1-6
- Follow the Money, Understand the Olympic Scam
- Olympic Reflections - Dave Diewert, January 2009
- Hallmark Events & Impacts on Housing
- Matthew 4:1-11 (A Reflection)
- The Olympics - Updated (Dave Diewert)
- A Plan to Achieve the 2010 Olympic Housing Commitments
- Olympic Oversight Interim Report Card
Housing
- Citywide Housing Coalition
- The State of Non-Market Housing in the Downtown Eastside (Sept 2007)
- Homelessness and Affordable Low Income Housing Backgrounder (Sept 2007)
- Disappearing Homes: The Loss of Affordable Housing in the DTES (April 2008)
- United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (Oct 2007)
Homelessness
- Homeless Voices, 2010: Listening to Metro Vancouver Residents Who Have Experienced Homelessness
- Finding Our Way Home Again - 2009 Report
- The Homeless Hub
- 2008 Homeless Count - Fact Sheet
- 2008 Homeless Count - Memo
- Homelessness, Victimization & Crime: Knowledge and Actionable Recommendations
- Lenten Vigil: Poverty Drama - God's Friday 2007
- Lenten Vigil: Homelessness and Housing
- Lenten Vigil: The Criminalization of Homelessness
- Lenten Vigil: Being Poor in a "Civil" City
- Lenten Vigil: BC - A Leader in Child Poverty
- Lenten Vigil: Barriers to Income
Canada's First Nations
- Rot Has Set in on B.C. Reserves
- Assembly of First Nations
- Canada's Dirty Little Secret (June 2007)
- First Nations Child & Family Caring Society
- House apologizes to residential school survivors (May 2007)
- Natives died in droves as Ottawa ignored warnings (April 2007)
- Survivors Wait While Lawyers Squabble (Feb. 2007)
Reflections & Liturgy
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