Solidarity With Tenants of Little Mountain

PROVINCE-WIDE STAND for HOUSING!
Saturday MAY 3, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

WILL YOU STAND WITH US?

in Vancouver at Main & 33rd Avenue
and many other locations

After the STAND our blue banners from all over Vancouver will converge at Main & 36th to show solidarity with the tenants of Little Mountain Housing. Please join us!

Check our Website http://www.my-calm.info/
for locations of STANDs around the city!

SAVE SOCIAL HOUSING AT LITTLE MOUNTAIN

Little Mountain Housing, Vancouver’s oldest social housing complex with 224 homes, is slated for redevelopment. The publicly owned 15-acre site adjacent to Queen Elisabeth Park is being sold to the highest bidder and density of expensive market housing will be increased dramatically. It was reported that the government even may renege on its commitment to replace the existing social housing at Little Mountain (Globe & Mail, 21/03/08). Construction will not start before 2010, but tenants are being pressured to move to provide the developer ‘vacant possession’. A well-functioning community, where people depend on each other for many kinds of support is being displaced, causing untold hardship.

At this time, over 170 habitable homes stand empty at Little Mountain, while thousands of people are homeless. Homeless people are dying on our streets. Hundreds of people in need of housing could be temporarily housed until construction begins. Instead, our governments have decided to demolish habitable buildings as they become vacant!

It is a scandal to leave habitable homes empty while thousands of people sleep on our streets.

Tell our governments:

• Stop the needless displacement of families from Little Mountain and let the remaining families relocate on site while new homes are constructed.
• Re-open vacant homes to families in need of housing - no bulldozing of homes until construction begins.
• Increase low-income housing at Little Mountain, and keep all housing non-market.
• Keep public land public – No sale of public land to private interests
• Implement a comprehensive public housing program – we need immediate action at all levels of government to build social and affordable housing.

Download the Little Mountain Rally poster here.