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On Sunday, longtime Vancouver Sun reporter John Mackie wrote an article headlined “Graffiti overwhelms Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Chinatown.” A print version of the article was titled “‘Chaos breeds chaos.’” We’re spending a ton of money on it (cleaning the #graffiti). There’s no enforcement, there’s no responsibility for the people that are doing it. .social disorder that seems to be taking over the neighbourhood or the community. #DTES#Vancouver#BChttps://t.co/iHXPp9i619pic.twitter.com/LWuplU50ws People First Radio (@peoplefirstrad) January 25, 2021
From Tent Cities to Affordable Housing on One Downtown Eastside Lot
The project at 58 W. Hastings was promised four years ago after two tent city protests. Construction will start this spring.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES The 2016 tent city at 58 W. Hastings St. in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside helped bring a promise for affordable housing on the site. More than four years later, the project is finally going ahead.
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It’s been used for a tent city twice, a community garden, a street market and informal overdose prevention site, and for an emergency medical unit during the early days of Vancouver’s overdose crisis.
Vancouver’s First Overdose Prevention Site Moves Across the Street
After a busy year, OPS founding member Sarah Blyth says the new art-filled space is a welcome change.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Sarah Blyth: ‘We get people housing, we get people food, we get people clothing.’
Photo by Jen St. Denis.
Vancouver’s first overdose prevention site started out as a tent in a Downtown Eastside alley. Just before Christmas in 2016, a construction company donated a trailer so that staff had somewhere to warm up. A year later, the Overdose Prevention Society moved inside to a storefront next door.