Evictions forcing out Downtown Eastside poor

Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2008

VANCOUVER -- Hundreds of tenants in the Downtown Eastside are being evicted from their rooms and the next regional homeless count will likely show a large increase, Pivot Legal Society lawyer David Eby said today.

Eby said the poorest tenants in the area - some of them in hotels purchased by the provincial government to convert to social housing - are losing their rooms as owners move to sell or renovate their properties.

"In the past three months we've had evictions from about five buildings in the area," he said.

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