Hello friends,
Please join us on Saturday April 4 for a GRAND MARCH FOR HOUSING. Thousands of people across the province will unite and call for action on homelessness and affordable housing.
We will gather from across the Lower Mainland in Vancouver
at 12:00 noon at 3 start points:
Thornton Park (near Main Street Skytrain Station)
Hastings & Main
Peace Flame Park (south end of Burrard Bridge )
We will converge at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 1:30 pm. Contact Laura Stannard, Jewish Family Services Society, (604) 732-8685 for more information about the Vancouver march.
In addition, people from all around the province will hold local marches and/or rallies — in the Comox Valley , Colwood, Cranbrook , Gibsons, Kamloops , Kelowna , Mission , Nanaimo , Nelson, Prince George , Princeton, Quesnel, Revelstoke, Richmond , Sechelt, Smithers, Terrace, and in Victoria where 9 organizations will lead their march to the steps of the Legislature. Contact Barry Growe, Community Advocates for Little Mountain, (604) 325-7209 for more information about Province-wide marches.
We gather in unity with those who are homeless, those who are one landlord’s decision or one paycheque away from homelessness, and those who live in unhealthy, unsafe, or overcrowded conditions.
We call on our governments to end homelessness.
We call on our governments to build permanent social housing.
We call on our governments to raise the minimum wage and welfare.
We call on our governments to protect rentals and renters.
Useful links:
www.citywidehousingcoalition.org
Downtown Eastside Contingent of the Grand March for Housing
New article to read related to the upcoming Provincial election: Province’s New Counting Makes Homeless Disappear, Say Critics
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