Alliance Against Displacement

• Surrey tent city residents accuse city of forcing them out with no time to gather belongings

  "You can't expect someone to just come in and remove everything from five years worth of living here in, what, less than 12 hours? It's crap, it's not right."

  Nov 23, 2019
  
• ‘I trusted them’: Family of man killed in RCMP shooting rallies against police brutality

  Kyaw Din was shot in a dispute with Ride Meadows RCMP officers who were called to his home on Aug. 11 to check on his well-being.

  Crime

  Oct 5, 2019
  
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• Maple Ridge homeless camp site to become public park, moving remaining campers out

  Advocates for the former Anita Place tent city that took up the site for years say the move is displacing the few remaining campers.

  Sep 13, 2019
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• Homeless advocates in Tri-Cities set up tent city, forcing meeting with city officials

  A tent city meant to house homeless residents of Metro Vancouver's Tri-Cities region was broken up shortly after it was erected Thursday.

  Jun 13, 2019
• Activists furious after RCMP break up Maple Ridge overdose prevention site

  The group Alliance Against Displacement had set the site up at 22548 Royal Cres. as a part of a call for the establishment of a formal supervised consumption site in the city.

  Health

  Jun 6, 2019
• Burnaby housing advocacy group unimpressed task force includes developers, no residents

  Alliance Against Displacement says Metrotown residents were never advised that Burnaby's housing task force was being formed, and were certainly never asked to join or be involved. 

  Canada

  Jan 29, 2019
• Proposed housing for homeless in Maple Ridge just a ‘band-aid solution: advocate

  "It institutionalizes poor people, it's a mode of surveillance, they give up their tenancy rights, their privacy, their autonomy, and it's a dehumanizing approach to trying to help poor people and homeless people."

  News

  Jan 26, 2018
• Sugar Mountain Tent City site becomes scene of a skirmish between cyclist and an activist

  An organizer of a press conference pushed a cyclist and said he "fell down."

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2017
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• UPDATE: BC Supreme Court grants injunction against 10-Year tent city

  The last day of an injunction hearing into "10-Year tent city" began Monday.

  Jun 26, 2017