March 4, 2025
Vancouver, don’t stop building supportive Housing
Rationalizing that the city has a disproportionate number of supportive housing compared to its population, and that outlying municipalities should...
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Recognizing the frontline of the homelessness response
An Open Letter from the Board of PHS Community Services Society Regardless of how you believe we should tackle some...
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Sport builds community in the DTES
Members of a Downtown Eastside Indigenous soccer team, First Nations BC, are looking ahead to a new year that builds...
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Supportive housing providers unite to combat homelessness
More than 20 experienced and innovative providers of low-barrier supportive housing have come together to address the growing needs and...
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Pure joy: how it feels like to move into PHS housing after sheltering and homelessness
PHS Community Services Society opened two new housing developments in late 2023. There was 80-unit Stanley in the Downtown Eastside and...
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Housing is healthcare and harm reduction
We’re opening new housing in Vancouver and Victoria to bring people in from the cold. New projects across both cities...
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The drug crisis demands political unity
If ever there was a non-partisan issue, it’s the drug poisoning crisis. It’s hitting all communities from coast to coast....
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Nathan Edelson was a champion of the Downtown Eastside
Nathan Edelson was an urban visionary. He was a City planner who advocated for social inclusion and fought tirelessly for...
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Insite at 20: Still saving lives, still giving hope
When Insite opened in September 2003, it wasn’t just the first sanctioned site in North America for witnessed injecting. It...
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Pigeon Park Savings: the Downtown Eastside’s bank
As we come up to our 20th year of low-barrier community banking, Pigeon Park Savings is growing faster than ever....
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