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Homelessness clock ticking in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

April 7, 2007
| The homelessness clock is counting down to the 2010 Olympics, in tandem with the clock unveiled last month by the B.C. government.

14:01 minutes (12.84 MB)
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The Poverty Olympics

February 6, 2008
| The mascots for these games are Itchy the Bed Bug, Chewy the Rat and Creepy the Cockroach and there are no winners. We talk to one of the organizers.

15:50 minutes (14.49 MB)
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2009 Poverty Olympics

February 10, 2009
| Organizers of last Sunday's event are determined to embarrass governments into funding housing and raising welfare rates.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)
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Still losing hotel rooms

August 5, 2009
| Single room occupancy rooms are vanishing from Vancouver's downtown eastside taking with them a rich and vibrant community.

12:50 minutes (11.76 MB)
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Vancouver City Council to allow 15-storey buildings in Downtown Eastside

January 30, 2010
| Vancouver City Council allows 15-storey buildings in Downtown Eastside. Housing activists say the zoning change will push low-income residents out of the area in favour of more condos.

12:56 minutes (11.85 MB)
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Vancouver city council not protecting low-income housing

October 6, 2010
| Single room occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside are raising their prices above what the people willing to live in them can afford.

13:24 minutes (12.28 MB)