March 1, 2020 Carnegie Newsletter

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Motion 83. Declaring a Homelessness Emergency: Making an Emergency Plan to Drastically Reduce Homelessness Submitted by: Councillor Swanson and Councillor Fry WHEREAS 1.

At least 2,223 people were counted as homeless across Vancouver in 2019;

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At least 7655 were counted as homeless across British Columbia;

3. At least 30,000 are homeless in Canada in anyone day with 235,000 experiencing a year; 4.

homelessness in

Homelessness robs people of their security, dignity, rights and lives -- homeless people have about

half the life expectancy as housed people; 5. Canadians are upset by the fact that we have homelessness in a rich country, and that people have to live on the streets. On June 21, 2019 the Governor General of Canada signed into law Bill C-97, which contained the National Housing Strategy Act, and the federal right to housing legislation -- which enshrines "adequate housing as a fundamental 6.

human right;

Numerous academic studies have established that providing secure housing is a more cost-effective

solution to homelessness than maintaining

temporary

shelters and incurring additional

policing, mental

health service, and health care costs; 7.

The full continuum

of housing needs far outweigh

local government's

ing required to effectively address this issue, and desperately

available resources and fund-

needs the. support of both the Provincial

and Federal governments; 8.

BC Housing and other social housing providers have long wait lists and a lack of available housing,

while: a)

Low rent housing is being lost to rent increases when tenants move out; and

b) Not enough social housing at welfare rate is coming on-stream to make up for the loss of low rent housing; and "It c)

Modular housing works well to house people who have been homeless, but the province isn't fund-

ing enough of them to meet the demand.

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Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels are often the last resort before homelessness. SROs are being

bought by investors who are evicting current low-income

tenants by renovating and increasing the

rents. Vancouver could lose hundreds of SRO rooms to this practice; 10. Welfare and disability shelter rates as determined

by the province, are too low at $375 per month

to even cover operating costs for an SRO room; 11. Skyrocketing prices for housing and land over the past 10 years, spurred by low-interest financial speculation,

rates and

have turned Vancouver into one of the most expensive housing markets in the

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world, far out of reach of most local incomes;

12. On January 29, 2020, following a unanimous council vote, Ottawa became the first city in Canada to declare a housing and homelessness emergency; 13. The circumstances and extent of homelessness in Vancouver constitute ation.

a crisis and emergency situ-

THEREFOREBE IT RESOLVEDTHAT A. B.

THAT Vancouver City Council declares a Homelessness Emergency;

THAT Council urge the federal and provincial governments

and regional governments

with local gov-

ernment and other partners, to make a Homelessness Emergency plan to build or find dignified, affordable housing for at least 80 percent of counted homeless people within 3 years; C.

THAT Council direct staff to incorporate

this target into the existing Housing & Homelessness Strate-

gy and be a key focus of the Housing & Homelessness Strategy ongoing.

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THAT this Homelessness Emergency plan includes raising social assistance shelter rates so people

can afford to pay rent; E. THAT this Homelessness Emergency plan include recommendations

for implementing

vacancy con-

, trol as a tool to preserve existing lower rent accommodation; F.

THAT Council direct staff to prepare and submit the following

Homelessness Emergency declaration

and request for a plan, along with whereas clauses 2, 4 and 5, as a resolution to LMLGA and UBCM: a) THAT the UBCM declare a province-wide Homelessness Emergency and call upon the Province to work with local governments, BC Housing and other partners on a Homelessness Emergency Plan to build or find dignified, affordable housing for at least 80 percent of counted homeless people within 3 years; and b)

THAT the UBCM recommends the province implement

vacancy control as a tool to preserve existing

lower rent accomm.•odation.

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THAT Council direct staff to prepare and submit this Homelessness Emergency declaration

and re-

quest for a plan, along with whereas clauses 3, 4 and 5, as a resolution to FCM: a)

THAT the FCM declare a nation-wide

Homelessness Emergency and call upon the Federal Govern-

ment to work with local and provincial governments, Plan to build or find dignified, affordable within 3 years.

and other partners on a Homelessness Emergency

housing for at least 80 percent of counted homeless people

The preceding motion went before City Council on Tuesday, February 25. The following letter reflects much of the community's support.

My name is Penny Goldsmith and I am a long-time anti-poverty advocate living in Vancouver. I am also involved with the Highs & Lows Mental Health choir and am on the 411 Seniors Centre Issues Committee and the Seniors Advocates provincial Council of Advisors. In all these roles, I hear ongoing stories of people whose housing is not stable, and whose right to safe adequate shelter is constantly compromised by the current housing crisis in Vancouver.

Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, in a visit to Vancouver in November 2019, said: "1 think to hear, at its core, to hear from people that there is not housing available ... is a real indictment, not just an indictment here in Vancouver, but I think it is a profound indictment that the fact that we've got this longstanding, unacceptable failure to recognize that housing - safe adequate' housing - is not just something nice, it's not just something for municipal governments to figure out when they're balancing budgetsit's one of the most precious and essential human rights of all, and we need to start taking it seriously."

There are well over 2,223 homeless people in the City of Vancouver. Most have no access to daytime shelter, and at least 600 people have zero overnight shelter options. There is an insufficient number of social housing and shelter-rate units to meet growing need. 1200 homeless people and 3000 SRO residents live in the Downtown Eastside without decent, affordable housing. British Columbia is in a housing crisis, and there are a record number of homeless people in Vancouver, 39% of whom are Indigenous.

BC Coroners Service's updated statistics on homeless deaths show the median age of death for a homeless person in B.C. is between age 40 and 49. That's roughly three decades earlier than the general population. It rivals the lowest general life expectancy of any nation on the planet , According to the Metro Vancouver Regional Homelessness Task Force, simply responding to demands of a homeless person costs taxpayers on average $55,000 in local and regional resources - compared with $37,000 to house them. This equates to about $7 billion annually in Canada, or $200 million for the Metro Vancouver ~~ Shelter rates have not increased for more than a decade, while fixed costssuch as rent and utilities increase every year } Vacancy control is a tool to preserve existing lower rent accommodation. Tying rent control to the unit removes the incentive for landlords to find excuses to evict vulnerable tenants in order to replace them with tenants who can pay double or triple the current rents. Vacancy control will help relieve the stress caused by fear of eviction, prevent homelessness, and preserve 3,000 low-income housing units.

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Leilani Farha, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, states: "Local, provincial a1\d federal governments are obliged under international human rights law to ensure that the right to housing is realized for everyone ... No one wants to see people in one of the richest countries in the world, living in tents."

There are precedents for your support of Motion B3. On January 29,2020, following a unanimous council vote, Ottawa became the first city in Canada to declare a housing and homelessness emergency. Let's follow their lead in Vancouver.

[Email seen Thursday morning (Feb 27): The Homelessness Emergency motion finally passed around 9:30 pm. It was watered down by a number of amendments including that council refused to have their own staff adopt the

targets in the plan. The mayor tried to have the whole thing ruled out of order. •

Mapping Out a Personal Timeline of the

Who, What, Where & When's Sometimes, it may serve us well to tear off a strip of paper as depicting a highway one's highway of life - marking the years of ups and downs that we have experienced - as we go round and round.

Where were we? And what were we doing? And who were we with? when we experienced the highs and the lows?

And what does this tell us? - so we can wisely map out this new year with wisdom in tow.

What should we keep? and what should we let go of? to make room for the new - highs or lows.

With this, there's no need for a genie with a crystal ball when we can map out our road(s) whilst exercising that 01 wonderful freedom of choice. 'for the best way to predict the future is to create it' (anonymous)

Dear Vancouver Police Department.

First, I would like to thank you, I respect the work that you do. I know how stressful and heartbreaking your role is.

However, as a citizen, I do not still feel safe in the DOWNTOWN AREA. After Pick ton was caught, I wondered about the drug dealers and other addicts that hung out with him as accessories. I w~nder if those people involved have been pulled off the street.

Please, as a BlPOC woman, I feel protected by you. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. You and the Vancouver Coastal Health authority plus the citizens of Chinatown, helped to keep me safe and as a person suffering from schizophrenia, I will be forever in debt to you.

Jathinder Sandhu and Ruby Diamond [If you don't believe me you can read Billeh Nickerson's work.]

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Carnegie Anniversary Story Peter Fairchild How did I get involved?

As with many other folks who made their way into the Carnegie Centre I arrived from the street. I was pretty far down the 'luck' list having burned so many bridges on the way down, mostly through alcohol. For some reason, I have never been attracted by drugs, hard or soft, like so many others who walk through the door of Carnegie.

Arriving at Carnegie does not imply 'getting involved'. I was told that the City of Vancouver provided staff and operational funds but running the Centre took a lot more people than what the City could afford. So, it relied on volunteers to turn a single staff person on a shift to one staff person and up to four or five volunteers acting as assistants or even 'staff. A volunteer coordinator was responsible for recruiting, hiring, training, supervision and other functions including attending the Board's Volunteer Committee and acting as an advisor to it.

I was astonished to discover that there were over 300 people a week entering the building as volunteers and they were involved in virtually all aspects of the place, senior executive decisions excluded though some of that came later. One of the attractions to this system was that volunteers received two 'tickets' per hour that they could use to buy food or other things that were directly available at Camegie.

Carnegie helped me to come back from a pretty big depth of despair. After what seemed like a very short time, I decided I would meet with the volunteer coordinator to see if there were something I could do to pay it back. The kitchen made my decision as it needed volunteers all the time; no recruitment decision required. I started off as a dishwasher and worked my way up or sideways to cashier. This was the most important volunteer position as it involved dealing with a great deal of cash - with people who did not have a great deal of money - and fending off people, including some staff people, who were constantly trying to abuse the volunteer ticket system.

What has surprised me the most about being a member?

I could go on and on about the many surprises that greeted me as a member. including the number of people who held post-secondary and post-graduate degrees. It shouldn't have because I was one of them. Plus, the incredible enthusiasm that folks put into their roles even if they were coming off a high or a low ... and I was somewhat involved in that group as well. I was also surprised by how Carnegie staff and many volunteers were greeted on the street, though this was not a universal approval. In fact, an additional surprise was that the VPD was not on our side, even blaming Carnegie for the street scene in front of Carnegie. Never mind that the VPD HQ at the time was only two blocks from Carnegie.

I remember one time when the Carnegie Board invited the police chief to a special meeting with the Board and any members interested in attending. He arrived with half the senior executive and at least 50 police officers - enough to linethree walls with armed, uniformed police holding their arms at the ready. Now, there is a symbol of support that surprised even me, and I am a real cynic.

But I think the emphasis on this question is on, or should be on, the 'most'! This is a very troublesome issue for me as it involves staff more than volunteers. Volunteers come aboard to help, to provide themselves with a better sense of self worth and, generally, to make a contribution that they were unable to make before.

In return, volunteers should receive a modicum of support, understanding and respect from the staff people they are working with and/or their supervisors. In my personal experience I think the majority of staff meet these criteria more or less as well as they can. However, there are some that make no hesitation about how much they despise volunteers and do their best to put them down, even to the point of recruiting other staff persons to their 'cause' or demanding that senior executive hire more staff so they can get rid of more volunteers.

What do you wish other people knew about the Carnegie Centre and how would I respond to someone who disagrees with you about that?

I would want people to know what a friendly, open place it is, welcoming everyone to a safe haven in the

midst of the chaos of Main and Hastings. Many people would probably argue that Camegie is responsible for the chaos. To them I would not hesitate to invite them through the front doors for a tour of the place. You can feel the environmental change as soon as the doors close behind you. And, the stairs leading to the second floor are practically a walk-through history, particularly with the stained- glass windows, the marble staircase and the cover pages of virtually every edition of the Carnegie Newsletter.

Can you tell me about someone from Carnegie who has influenced you?

Without any doubt at all that would be Michael Clague, one of three people who served as directors of the Camegie Centre when I was volunteering there. While the director held all the authority and responsibility (reporting to the City) he used it wisely and became a mentor to the Board of Directors which had no power except that of persuasion. I was a member of the Board at that time and, as with most other Board members, relied on his gentle influence when faced with difficult decisions. Our relationship carried on well past the time he was the director and I was a kitchen volunteer. In fact, years later we co-authored a book about the Camegie and the time we spent there.

What would you tell someone who is thinking about donating, volunteering, etc. at the Carnegie Centre?

This is very difficult to answer and would depend largely upon the person who is thinking about it, his or her personal circumstances and what they had in mind. I would start by asking them what they knew about the Centre and offer them a tour if they had not been in the building lately. Donations would be very simple - a cheque made out to the Camegie Community Centre Board. I could wax eloquent about the Board and what it does, but I think the person(s) would be well past that just in considering a donation. I would exchange emails or other contact information for the volunteer coordinator. Again, I would not try to over-persuade, just arrange a meeting with the coordinator and they can do the tour and probe further about what he or she was interested in doing, [Peter and Michael are the two misfits who collaborated on the book A Camegie Centre Story 1995-2005. It was launched at an event during the Heart of the City Festival in November 2019. It's in the Libraryl]

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From "the Library

March 151 already! Time flies. At least the days are getting longer and the weather is slowly warming.

Not having a particular topic to write about today, I decided to peruse the New Books shelf and chose the following three to write about.

Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide is a thrilling account of his first contact with Edward Snowden and the revelation of the National Security Agency's surveillance program. It starts in December 2012, when Greenwald receives an email from a mysterious "Cincinnatus" (Snowden's alias). This results in a meeting between the two in Hong Kong, where Snowden divulges the full scale of the program. This leads to Greenwald asking questions regarding the health of a society that is being invasively surveilled on. This is a high-paced, intense, and J. topical book.

I Another recent acquisition of ours is Picking Up We continue to prioritize ideas that: the Pieces: Residential School Memoires and the -Connect Indigenous and non-Indigenous neighbours Making of the Witness Blanket, by Carey Newman -Are led by young people ages 18 to 24 and Kristie Hudson. The Witness Blanket is large art -Are green-focused projects installation comprised of hundreds of items reclaimed from Residential Schools. In addition, it Application Dates tours the country from coast to coast, representing 2020 grant applications close April 9, 2020 Grant Amounts the national tragedy of the Residential Schools. This $50- $500 book is the story of the Witness Blanket and details the inspiration behind it, the materials selected, and Apply online at www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca the stories that are imbedded in the blanket.

Last but not least, Flights of No Return: Aviation Roberta Robertson, Co-ordinator History's Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality by Steven A. Ruffin is an exploration of some of the more well-known failed flights. A few of these are the Hindenburg, the D.B. Cooper hijacking, and Eastern Airlines Flight 401. This book is recommended for anyone interested in aviation history and mysteries.

In the spirit of reconciliation, NSG acknowledges that we On a separate note, I invite anyone who is interested to attend the Philosophers' Cafe in the centre, on live, work and play in the unceded and traditional terriTuesday, March 10, at 5pm. The topic is "The limits tories of the Coast Salish peoples - x"maBkwayam, , (Musqueam), skwxwu'Zmesh (Squamish), and selilwitulh to giving."

(Fsleil-Waututh) nations.

Happy Reading, Daniel

ELl HOWEY

Passageways At Gallery Gachet

Including sculpture, printmaking, book arts, and community engagement, Passageways is a solo exhibition by Eli Howey based on a series of watercolour and gouache paintings of the same title. In the series, characters in shadowy environments interact with surrounding objects and flora. The artist illuminates the body as the ultimate symbol of transgression - first physically, as the vehicle, exemplified by the exact moment of being held in the tension of transgressing two spaces; and further, as the energetic mediator, a passageway between tangible and non-tangible spaces that can manifest ideas movements thoughts, memories, and other vibrations into physical ' reality. The artwork reinterprets the body through an expansive symbolism, building towards an imaginativepoetic-visual language around human psychology, identity, and gender.

Eli Howey is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in comics and printmaking. Howey's artwork incorporates the imagined spaces within environments to tell stories that explore the body's relationship to the unseen world. Reinterpreting the body within an imaginative symbolism allows Howey to explore sensitive topics around gender, identity, and mental health in a more nuanced and understandable way. The artist illustrates the internal world of thoughts, feelings and intuition, which converge on the isual plane. Nature is an important element in Howey's artwork, providing pathways for creative imagining outside of the confmes of capitalist colonial culture.

Gallery Gachet is located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on the unceded and occupied territories of the x m;)9J,cw;)y;)m(Musqueam), SkwxwU7mesh (Squamish) and Solilwctal (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. Gallery Gachet has a m~date to support artists and offer art programs ~ddressl~g mental ~ealth and socio-political marginalization, while promotmg art as a means for survival, cultural participation, and human rights.

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WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN Like, what's the deal When passing by I don't know what to feel.

Don't get it, can't tell So much traffic whether engines or people I cannot really compute what I see, what I hear, and those smothering smells.

What's the point, I think AsI'm moving on, I simply do not feel that well.

Zig-zagging here, and then dodging there I'm on my own with too much to bear Seeking some blissful peace I have way too much pain Sometimes I'm too tired to carebut I sort of accept the world, at times it seems so hard to change maybe it's too late for me to rearrange I need some more help, often too afraid and embarrassed to ask.

IfI don't get it right this time I w~ll face a monumental task Please give me a call if, if you' re in a caring and sharing mood Maybe you have some sacred secret ways to save my life.

Mine own self be true free from worry and strife Rockyn Robyn Livingstone

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A Book Review:

Gilles Cyrenne

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rights Stealth Plan/or America Nancy MacLean Last Fall I received a pair of tickets to attend the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's annual fundraising dinner. The featured speaker was Nancy Maclean, author of Democracy in Chains.

This is the summary of the book on the back cover: Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our governments is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But businessmen like the Koch brothers did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Democracy in Chains names its true architect-the Nobel Prize winning political economist lames McGill Buchanan-and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority.

A chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok, Democracy in Chains is not only a revelatory work of scholarship, but also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American self-government and democracy itself.

James Buchanan's Nobel Prize, was for his work on the theory of Public Choice Economics, work entirely based on opinion, not supported by any empirical evidence, and described as not simply "descriptively inaccurate" but indeed "a terrible caricature."

Beginning with his work in Virginia to help the state government in its opposition to school integration, and ending with his surrender of George Mason University Economics Department to the Koch brothers and their cadre of right-wing political-hack operatives, his career is the story of marshalling corporate and right wing think tank money into a project to dismantle democracy.

The will of the majority is an impediment to wealthy libertarian property supremacists who view taxation as an infringement on their rights and as a theft. Their view is that government should only exist to ensure the rule of law, guarantee social order, provide national defence, and to protect their property. In their view all social security, old age pensions, medicare, public education funding, college and university funding, environmental regulation, banking regulation, workers unions, minimum wage laws, public land, and any government involvement in the economy should be abolished.

Ultimately, the goal is to change the American constitution such that a minority of billionaires can weaken checks and balances, and oligarchically take over the government. So now we have in the US, a president who is Distracter in Chief, doing a great job for his billionaire buddies as libertarian right wing property supremacists work behind the scenes at destroying democracy.

Democracy in Chains, exposes the arc of history from Virginia's slave plantation wealth- opposed to school integration- to the causes of half- a-million US citizens now sleeping outside. Public Choice Economics indeed! Closer to home we see the neoliberal economic tangent that progresses from the overseers' whip in the Jim Crow South to the tent city at Oppenheimer Park.

This short review barely begins to expose the corporate wealth psychosis that's attempting to radically impoverish the vast majority. Read Democracy in Chains. This is the context in which US history is presently unfoldJOg.

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