Latest Classifieds in Vancouver City Hall
Request for Access by Tom Laviolette, May 2000
Vancouver City Hall
Request was made by Tim Laviolette on behalf of the Carnegie Community Action Project.
Letter to Board of Variance from Nicholas K Blomley, Associate Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, December 6, 1997
Vancouver City Hall
Many of Blomley’s speculations about gentrification and increased marginalization came true when the Woodward’s site was finally redeveloped by Westbank Corporation years later.
Excerpt from a Development Permit Board Meeting Staff Committee Report, October 8, 1997
Vancouver City Hall
This document gives a very basic outline of the changes in the development proposal from 1995 to the development proposal in 1997, and provides a simplified analysis of the changes in the neighbourhood around Woodward’s in those two years and the neighbourhood’s perspective.
“City seeks to end loss of low-cost housing” Vancouver Sun, April 4, 1997
Vancouver City Hall
In this piece, Mayor Philip Owens addresses homelessness and talks about plans to work with the provincial government to create policies that would prevent developers from converting SROs and other low-income housing into rooms for tourism, etc.
Director’s Report, February 2, 1995
Vancouver City Hall
The author remarks that while some City of Vancouver staff “pressed the issue of social housing,” it didn’t seem like a priority