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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.
240 Northern Street, operated by the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre 320 Hastings Street, operated by the First United Church of Canada In March 2009 the province of British Columbia provided an additional $1.5 million to keep the shelters open until the end of June.
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.
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]
This award-winning documentary film, shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada’s notorious Downtown Eastside, caught the eyes of audiences, film makers and critics worldwide for its unusual and sensitive depiction of life on the street. Through A Blue Lens documents a year of life and death on the street and behind tenement walls.
[8] $160,000 of the grant was paid out, however the City of Vancouver terminated the contract when services were not delivered as expected. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The city council voted to deny VANDU a $7,500 grant for arts program in 2023 for the gross misuse of public funds in 2022 making it the only grant out of 84 grants recommended by city staff to ...
In 1901 Vancouver requested $50,000 from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for the purpose of building a library. Carnegie agreed, provided the City of Vancouver supplied the site and contributed $5000 a year. [1] The original public library was completed in 1903. For decades, the top floor was the home of the Vancouver Museum.