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The Citywide Housing Coalition’s march to end homelessness, build social housing, and raise the minimum wage takes place this weekend.
Muster stations are located at Thornton Park (due west of the bus depot / train station), Hastings and Main streets, and Peace Flame Park (at the south end of the Burrard Street bridge). Marchers will walk peacefully (but noisily, we hope) from the march starting points to the Vancouver Art Gallery, meeting in front of the Art Gallery, on Georgia Street, at 1:30 p.m.
Given the failure of the federal government to step up to the plate and build affordable housing for Canadians – when many across Canada are experiencing a housing crisis – is unconscionable. We need a renewed, affordable, well-funded and effective co-operative housing programme, as well as the construction of special needs housing (for women, and for single parent families, for the homeless). Housing is an issue which affects us all.
Let’s make this a march for change, for a renewed commitment to social agency, and to programmes benefitting the most vulnerable in our society. Let’s march to encourage government to bring in programmes to protect renters, and construct social housing for the homeless and for families in Vancouver, throughout British Columbia, and across our great country!
