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The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues, including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and sex work.
In April 2011, UGM officially opened a new headquarters at 601 East Hastings in Vancouver, marking the largest expansion in its history. The new facility is 70,000 square feet and equipped to provide 92 shelter beds, 37 affordable housing units, extended meal capacity and a live-in drug and alcohol recovery program for men.
In September 2003, Evans, her husband Mark Townsend, and colleagues with the Portland Hotel Society partnered with the regional health authority, Vancouver Coastal Health, to establish Insite, North America's first sanctioned supervised-injection facility, at 139 East Hastings Street. [5] At the time, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside was ...
In 2018, more than 2,100 people live on the streets of Vancouver, Canada — a record number for the city. Over the past three years, homelessness in the Greater Vancouver area has also increased ...
The 100-block of East Hastings Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, the heart of that city's "skid road" neighborhood, lies on a historical skid road. [63] The Vancouver Skid Road was part of a complex of such roads in the dense forests surrounding the Hastings Mill and adjacent to the settlement of Granville, Burrard Inlet . [64]
By 2008, half of Vancouver's homeless population had been homeless for over one year, and 90 percent of them were homeless by themselves without a partner, child, dog, or companion of any kind. [10] Homeless youth in Vancouver tend to have lower rates of being alone, and the number of homeless youth for each gender is evenly split. [10]
Ali Forney Center; Anti-Poverty Committee, an organisation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that campaigns against poverty and homelessness; Back on My Feet, an American urban homeless outreach organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, centered on overcoming homelessness through running; Barefoot Foundation; Barnabus Manchester
Near the corner of Main and Hastings streets, Bruce Eriksen Place, a social housing project, designed by Vancouver architect Gregory Henriquez, was opened in 1996. [2] Inscribed on each of the balconies of the building are the words such as "Hope, Integrity, Vote, Dream, Vision, Courage and Respect", in tribute to Eriksen and his contribution ...