If your mortgage is taking too big of a bite out of your budget, you're not alone. On average, mortgage debt makes up about 69% of total household debt in the country more than any other type of.
Brian Komei Dempster s Seize Credit: Courtesy of Four Way Books
Poetâs search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate May 07, 2021
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Seize. His work considers what it is to be othered in America, historically and personally. The backdrops are the legacy of the Japanese internment camp era, the impact of anti-Asian bigotry, and the experience of raising a child with a disability.
Komei Dempster is the editor of
From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in Americaâs Concentration Camps and
Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. It sounds paradoxical to call Seize an epic when it focuses on the individual, the everyday, the familiar and has a central figure who was diagnosed as âretarded, abnormal, impaired,â who hardly speaks, and who is greatly dependent on others. And yet that is the scale, importance, and achievement of Brian Komei Dempsterâs second collect
Inside Vancouver City Hall’s Housing Wars
Voters demanded action on affordability. What they got is so weirdly split we tried to map the mess.
Doug Ward is a freelance writer and previously a reporter at the Vancouver Sun. SHARES Mayor of Splitsville? Kennedy Stewart faces a fractured council when it comes to housing reforms.
Collage by Christopher Cheung. Building images via Google Street. City hall photo by popejon2 via Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0.
When Vancouver voters last went to the polls, the most pressing issue for two out of three was the housing crisis. Tight rentals and skyrocketing home prices were shutting out younger and lower-income residents, and the Vision Vancouver government was due for a shellacking given that 85 per cent of those surveyed said the job it had done was either “bad” or “very bad.”