Downtown Victoria

Media stereotyping of unhoused population.

Diary of a Tent City Neighbour – Part III

Final reflections on the closure of Tent City in Victoria in 2016.

Diary of a Tent City Neighbour – Part II

A continuing narrative about Victoria’s 2016 Tent City life.

Diary of a Tent City Neighbour – Part I

Diary of a poet who witnessed the emergence of Victoria’s Tent City in 2016.

Speculation tax: A silver bullet to solve the housing crisis?

How is BC’s speculation tax solving the housing crisis?

Part 3: ‘Inclusionary Housing’: A way to avoid providing housing for everyone?

Inclusionary Housing masks the real challenge – housing for all.

Where is contractors’ affordable housing?

A commentary regarding special interests in the housing affordability issue.

Spurious reasoning does not justify social injustice

Is lack of political will behind the choice not to resolve homelessness, a man-made crisis.

Hammond & Helps Serve Two Gods: Greed & Grief

What do Victoria and Los Angeles share in common?

Do we need more stereotyping of vulnerable people from a Victoria mayoralty candidate?

J. Goldberg, a Victoria resident, shares his reply to a recent Times Colonist op-ed, Housing First shouldn’t mean neighbourhods come second, by City of Victoria mayoralty candidate, Stephen Hammond, one of the founding members of NewCouncil.ca. Stephen Hammond stereotypes poor people as dangerous, threatening, sick, and lazy, while holding up those who own land as “hard-working” and […]