Resist the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside

Resist the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside

Here we go again. Vancouver city council is proposing a major shift to the Downtown Eastside local area plan by slashing social housing requirements and enabling market towers. But this isn’t revitalization, it’s displacement.

The city of Seine-Saint-Denis (93) has become the symbol of gentrification, a popular mobilization that is still struggling with the timidness of the local political class. A rally in support of two threatened squats took place in front of the town hall on Tuesday 6 April. The post In Pantin, the squats Al Zol and La Trotteuse want to resist the gentrification appeared first on Bondy Blog.

Sophie Thiébaut's testimony in Combating Gentrification is first of all that of a former elected municipal politician, a councillor in southwestern Montreal for more than a decade. Based on this experience, the author draws a nuanced but uncompromising record of "neighbourly" political work. She also recounts the beginnings of Projet Montréal, its evolution as a small opposition political party in 2017, as well as the transformation of the housi…