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Homeless Facts

In the 2008 Homeless Count there were AT LEAST 3,062 people homeless in Metro Vancouver.

Since 2002, there has been a shocking 137% increase in overall homelessness and a 373% increase in the number of people sleeping outside. /.

Great News for Vancouver: Major Investments in Social Housing Announced Today

May 25, 2010
As you are aware, ending street homelessness is one of Vision Vancouver’s top priorities. Today, our city moved a big step closer to reaching our goal of ending street homelessness by 2015.

THE CENTURYMEN – 2009 CONCERT TOUR

[ July 31, 2010; 4:33 am; July 16, 2010; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Location: St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church

Date: July 16, 2010  Time: 8:00pm

Sponsored by: End Homelessness Now & First Baptist Church

The CenturyMen, established in 1969, is an auditioned men’s chorus of professional Christian musicians who are Ministers of music, Concert artists, College Faculty members and one pastor across America and Germany.

The CenturyMen assemble annually from across [...]

COPE Housing Solutions Forum

[ May 8, 2010; 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. ] COPE is sponsoring a day-long discussion about SOLUTIONS to these problems.  What can city government do?  What can neighbourhoods do?  What can non-profits do?  What should we expect from the private sector?  What about co-ops?  What are the new and creative SOLUTIONS to the housing crisis?

Saturday, May 8 – 9:30-3:30 – 411 Seniors Centre, 411 [...]

3rd Roundtable on Collaborating for City Transformation

[ April 23, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. ] Friday, April 23rd 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Tenth Avenue Church, 11 West 10th Ave, Vancouver

Presentation

Dave Witt, Team Leader, True City

Andrew Zantingh, Pastor, First Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton

Q & A and Discussion

moderated by Jonathan Bird, City Gate Leadership Forum

John Ralston Saul at UCV!!

[ March 30, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] “Myth and Spirituality in A Fair Country”
Tuesday, 7:30 pm March 30, 2010

John Ralston Saul will speak in the UCV Sanctuary. Saul is current President of International PEN, and an award winning essayist and novelist. He is the author of, among other numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, A Fair Country: Telling Truths about [...]

Share the Gold event

[ February 24, 2010; 4:45 pm to 5:00 pm. ]

Share the Gold invites you to help link the worlds within our city by creating a human chain along Hastings Street.

A Half-Hour Stand in Solidarity
as together we create
A Human Chain to Share The Gold

Our vision is of a golden chain of individuals standing 3m apart along either side of Hastings Street for [...]

Olympic Safe Haven Project

The Olympic Safe Haven Project is based on a “Block Parent” style of providing refuge. Any agency, organization, club, church or group is welcome to participate. We will post signs in our windows clearly visible from the street for the duration of the Winter Olympics.
If you have any questions about this project, please contact Bill [...]

Community Forum on Mental Health

[ February 9, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] MP Hedy Fry will be hosting a community forum on mental health issues on Tuesday, February 9th, from 6:30- 8:30 pm at St. Paul’s Anglican Church at 1030 Jervis St.

Sixth emergency winter shelter opens in Vancouver

[ January 12, 2010; 12:00 am; ] City of Vancouver

A sixth emergency shelter for the homeless will open at 747 Cardero Street on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 to ensure shelter options are available throughout the city for a temporary period ending by April 30, 2010.

With the shelter’s opening, 40 additional sleeping spaces will be available through the City’s 2010 Winter Response [...]

Faith Leaders Meeting to Address Homelessness

[ January 28, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Update on new City Shelters
Reverend Dr. Steven Epperson and “End Homelessness Now” would like to invite you to a meeting on Thursday, January 28th from 6:30pm – 9:00pm at the Unitarian Church, 949 West 49th Street (Oak & 49th), Vancouver. Refreshments and Networking at 6:30pm, Program begins at 7:00pm.

The purpose of the meeting will be [...]

2nd Roundtable on Collaborating for City Transformation

[ January 14, 2010; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] City Gate Leadership Forum
Thursday, January 14th, 10 AM – 4 PM

@ Tenth Avenue Church, 11 West 10th Ave, Vancouver

Presentation: Dave Hillis, President, Leadership Foundations

Planning Circles: Jonathan Bird, City Gate Leadership Forum

How can the resources of the Christian community (clergy & laity, church & parachurch & marketplace) be [...]

Urban Poverty, Health and a Sustainable Future

[ November 23, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] Free community forum
Urban Poverty, Health and a Sustainable Future: Is Time Running Out?

Monday, November 23, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at St Andrews-Wesley Church in Vancouver

Report card on homelessness

A Homeless Report Card for British Columbia
The Tyee asked experts to assess progress on the issue, and assign some grades.
By Monte Paulsen, 12 Oct 2009, TheTyee.ca
To read the report on [...]

WOMEN’S HOUSING

KELOWNA
$10.7-MILLION WOMEN’S HOUSING BREAKS GROUND IN KELOWNA
http://www.bchousing.org/news/news_releases/2009/11/09/3620_0911091400-412

TRANSITION HOUSE

TRANSITION HOUSE OPENS IN TERRACE
$5.9-MILLION SHELTER AND TRANSITION HOUSE OPENS IN TERRACE
http://www.bchousing.org/news/news_releases/2009/11/06/5590_0911061040-310