affordable housing

Housing Now! Demo (Poverty Reduction Strategy Meeting)

Submitted by Deleted Accounts on May 21, 2008 - 9:43pm.

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Start: May 23 2008 - 10:30am

End: May 23 2008 - 12:00pm

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Corner of Cheapside St. & Highbury Ave (North London Optimist Community Centre)

The Provincial government's Poverty Reduction Strategy Community
Meeting will be having another hearing in London this Friday May 23rd
from 11-2pm at the North London Optimist Community Centre
1345 Cheapside Street (just east of Highbury Avenue) read more »

Sign of the times? Tent cities in LA

Submitted by Jeremy McNaughton on March 20, 2008 - 2:37pm.

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Here's a video from the BBC on a new tent city that has sprung up in Los Angeles. The people interviewed are all former home owners, who lost their homes in the sub-prime mortgage meltdown.

It reminds me of the fruit picker tent cities outside of LA during the 1930s.

I often say and hear said that real pressure for change won't happen while the middle class is so comfortable. That real change isn't possible until more people are negatively effected directly by the evils of the capitalist economy. Is that finally happening, at least in the States? read more »