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Description: Letter endorsing emergency housing for homeless persons.
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Subject: Homelessness , Housing, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Article taken from the Province newspaper. Homeless advocates occupation of an empty Strathcona School.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Occupy movement, Homelessness
Creator: Ip, Stephanie
Publisher: The Province
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: The people who work the front lines on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are sound the alarm over how the novel corona virus is being managed on the streets. Some say there’s a potential catastrophe brewing for people with addictions and the ongoing spread of COVID-19.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: House, Tina
Publisher: Winnipeg, MB : APTN
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Video
Description: Official statement by the Atira Women's Society's CEO regarding the violence directed against women during the protest taking place at Oppenheimer Park in 2020.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Description: News article concerning the combined issues of COVID-19 and the Strathcona Park tent city.
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Subject: Homelessness , Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: DTES Response is a coordinated effort comprised of organizations in the DTES to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensure this threat does not disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in the community.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: DTES Response
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://dtesresponse.ca/
Description: Personal website of Karen Ward, community organizer in working in Vancouver's DTES. The website contains articles and views about the current issues affecting the DTES community.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Ward, Karen (Community organizer)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Personal website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://free-futures-society.org/
Description: Special meeting called by Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation to receive a staff presentation and heard from 55 speakers
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Subject: Homelessness
Description: News article in The Runner detailing new initiatives initiated by government and grassroots organizations which prioritize care for unhoused people living on the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Laube, Aly
Publisher: The Runner
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Resource page by VCH's Communicable Disease Control division, providing COVID-19 information and resources for community partners who work with vulnerable populations (homeless and under-housed people, and people with complex care and/or MHSU needs).
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Drug utilization, Homelessness
Creator: Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Corporate website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://sneezesdiseases.com/covid-19-community-resources/
Description: With restaurant and catering business slowing down due to COVID-19, urban rats have begun looking for other sources of food, becoming an even larger health hazard for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Cruickshank, Ainslie
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/22/COVID-Rats/
Description: News article in documenting the issue of tent cities in Strathcona Park and Vancouver in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, proposing sanctioned sites as opposed to camping in parks.
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Subject: Homelessness , Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: St. Denis, Jen
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Article in The Tyee reporting on the recent government efforts to house individuals in Victoria and Vancouver living in tent cities into temporary accomodations in hotels and community centers. The article argues that without a coordinated approach and safe supply of drugs, there will be an increase in overdoses.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Gagnon, Marilou, 1980-
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : The Tyee
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article reporting on a provincial government initiative to distribute smartphones to vulnerable individuals living on the DTES in order to facilitate better access to information during the pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: Homeless people staying in close quarters at shelters, tent cities and warming centres are especially at risk for COVID-19, according to community advocates who are working to ensure hand-washing stations and clean bathrooms are available in Vancouver.
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Subject: Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Vancouver Sun article detailing the increasingly worsening problem of homelessness on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: McIntyre, Gordon, Lee-Young, Joanne
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Sun
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article recording the reopening of community facilities in Vancouver's DTES following the initial province-wide COVID-19 lockdown.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Mall, Rattan
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Indo-Canadian Voice
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Interview conducted by Ian Busfield with City of Vancouver Councillor Jean Swanson, discussing hte BC Government decision to move residents camped in Oppenheimer Park to temporary accommodations in hotel rooms and community centres.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Bushfield, Ian
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News website
Contributor: Swanson, Jean, 1943-
Description: Resource page developed by the Government of Canada containing recommendations are for the providers of services for people experiencing homelessness (including overnight emergency shelters, day shelters, and meal service providers) in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness
Description: In April 2020, B.C. has enacted a public safety order to move homeless people living in tent city encampments into hotels in Vancouver and Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Ghoussoub, Michelle
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article reporting on a provincial government initiative to distribute smartphones to vulnerable individuals living on the DTES in order to facilitate better access to information during the pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: CBC News report on a 60-room COVID-19 care facility created in Vancouver's DTES, in a pre-emptive strike to stop the spread of the coronavirus among the city's poorest residents.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Rankin, Eric (Reporter)
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: CBC News article detailing the efforts of the BC provincial government to find housing for individuals living on the DTES. DTES advocates respond by urging government to find more permanent solutions to the community's housing crisis.
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Subject: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: McElroy, Justin
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: CBC News article reporting on the City of Vancouver's first steps to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic - part of that response was the closing of the DTES street market.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Mussett, Ben
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Petition calling for help to the homeless and low-income individuals currently occupying the KT Camp at Strathcona Park, through more involvement of local authorities and, as the petitioner maintains, through eliminating tax evasion by private property owners in Strathcona.
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Subject: Homelessness , Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Stursberg, Alex
Publisher: Change.org
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Online petition
Description: A petition started by a local community organization addressed to various health authorities, community organizations and local government, urging action to find housing for the DTES residents experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Carnegie Community Action Project
Publisher: Change.org
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Online petition
Description: Petion started by City Counciller Jean Swanson to house homeless in hotels during the COVID-19 crisis
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Subject: Homelessness , Housing
Description: Open letter with multiple community representatives as signatories, addressed to the BC Premier, the Provincial Health Officer and other government representatives, calling for urgent government action in ensuring better health protections for BC's vulnerable groups.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Drug utilization, Homelessness
Creator: BC and Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors
Language: eng
Coverage: British Columbia
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca/rentcrisis/
Description: Homepage of the Red Braid alliance, containing news and resources for homeless and community activists in Metro Vancouver and BC.
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Subject: Homelessness , COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Red Braid
Language: eng
Coverage: British Columbia
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.redbraid.org/2020/
Description: An update published by the Red Braid Alliance detailing the responses and feedback the organization had received in April 2020 with regard to the earlier Stewart Squat event. The update answers community concerns in the form of a written Q & A.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Description: Article in the Globe and Mail detailing poverty advocates' concerns about the rising risk of COVID-19 in March 2020 among the vulnerable individuals living in the DTES.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Bula, Frances
Publisher: Toronto, ON : The Globe and Mail
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Update by Union Gospel Mission detailing its response to the Covid-19 pandemic within the DTES community the over the spring and summer of 2020. The page contains an option fo donating towards UGM's continued response.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease)--Religious aspects, Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Union Gospel Mission (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Religious organization website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.ugm.ca/covid-19-pandemic/
Description: Union Gospel Mission impact report from March to July 2020, covering the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and its appearance and presence within the DTES community.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Union Gospel Mission (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Description: Online newsletter detailing UGM's response to recent cases of COVID-19 within their shelter.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Creator: Union Gospel Mission (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Description: Report in the Vancouver Courier detailing the closure of the Oppenheimer Park tent city and the city's and provincial government's response to the need to provide temporary housing to the individuals who vacated the park, with COVID-19 as a backdrop to the decision-making.
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Subject: Homelessness , Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Howell, Mike (Reporter)
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Courier
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: News article in reporting on Strathcona residents' reluctance to continue paying property taxes as a response to city of Vancouver's slow response to the Strathcona Park tent city.
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Subject: Homelessness , Strathcona (Vancouver, B.C.), COVID-19 (Disease)
Creator: Lalonde, Megan
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Is Awesome
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: News article
Description: Homepage of the Vancouver Tenants Union, which represents over 2000 members, and seeks to build a base of tenants throughout the city to establish political power to create change.
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Subject: Homelessness
Creator: Vancouver Tenants Union
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Community group website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca/
Description: Article from March 2020, detailing the difficulties faced by the community of DTES in the face of the then-rising COVID-19 pandemic.
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Subject: COVID-19 (Disease), Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.), Homelessness
Creator: Smith, Penny (Reporter)
Language: eng
Coverage: Vancouver (B.C.)
Type: Web archives
Genre: Labour organization website
URL: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13892/*/https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/27/vanh-m27.html
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