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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Local residents protested the erosion of low-cost rental housing with a ‘demoviction’ rally in Metrotown on Saturday. The event was organized by the Stop Demovictions in Burnaby campaign, a coalition made up of the Metrotown Residents’ Association, Social Housing Alliance and ACORN Burnaby. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Calling for an end to ‘demovictions’ Residents took to the streets to draw attention to a shortage of affordable accommodations in Burnaby By Tereza Verenca
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Rain didn’t deter some 60 people from attending an affordable housing rally in Metrotown on Saturday. In an attempt to protect low-income housing from redevelopment, protesters called on Burnaby city council to place a moratorium on the demolition of affordable housing units until a policy is created to ei-
ther replace them or preserve them. “We had residents who currently live in buildings that are slated to be demolished speak at the rally, and others who live in Burnaby and fear they’re going to be next,” Dave Diewert, one of the organizers with the Social Housing Alliance, told the NOW. “I think under this current municipal government that seems to give green lights to all these massive developments, that people feel very vulnerable in terms of their hous-
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ing.” The event was organized by the Stop Demovictions in Burnaby Campaign, a coalition made up of the Metrotown Residents’ Association, Social Housing Alliance and ACORN Burnaby. The group wants all three levels of government to act, according to Diewert. Canada needs a national housing strategy, while at the provincial and municipal level, funding for social housing needs to become a
priority, he explained. “In Victoria, for example, they said, ‘We have a housing crisis.We’re going to raise money and build social housing, and so we’re going to raise property taxes.’ In Burnaby, it’s quite different. City council seems to think they have no homeless problem. … This is a developer’s heaven here,” Diewert said.
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Come & view this FREE exhibit at Our Lady of Mercy School Gymnasium, 7455 – 10th Ave., Burnaby By means of 85 panels, one can virtually visit the places where the miracles took places.