THE EASTSIDE poverty and olympics

in 2008 they held a poverty olympics, getting ready for the 2010 olympics to come. this was supposed to show what was going on down town lower eastside. it was supposed to end the poverty in the down town east side, to save the embarrassment coming in the next two years , the comunity joined together to help out.

Vancouver is losing affordable housing at an alarming rate, which consequently means a further increase in homelessness. In recent months, five low-cost rental buildings in and around the Downtown Eastside closed or issued eviction notices, representing at least 180 units.

in some cases, the olympics is not 0nly going to be effecting the east side but the west side downtown vancouver, apperiantly police have been charging for the little things, jay walking being one of them, at a meeting in july 2008, someone asked how many people have been given a jay walking ticket and half the room put up there hand. round 30 people were ticketed in two days for camping in parks in mid-July 2008.Jaywalking tickets have increased drastically: from 757 in 2007 to 1086 in 2008. Riding a bike without a helmet resulted in 32 tickets in 2006 and in 2008 that number rose to 92. The fear of homeless advocates is that warrants for unpaid tickets and similar offenses will suddenly appear en masse. Plant has been pushing for these legislative changes since last year but the cancellation of the BC Fall legislature session in 2008 meant that these changes have not yet been put into effect. apparently to target a certain crowd, I've notice that the police have been writing a lot more on the streets, stopping a lot more people. weird how now they finally step up and do they're job, but what for these little by-law tickets jay walking, riding a bike without a helmet. IVE SEEN A COP DOING THAT. if this is what they are doing to keep us in line, i don't think it's that wise.