Download - Ccap Presentation On Dtes Vision
Transcript
- 1.
- Show you our Vision for the DTES;
- Make a case for preserving our community assets;
- Convince you to help us implement our Vision.
2. 3.
- We told you about the DTES assets and 10 year stabilization plan
- HAHR, Woodwards opened, hotels upscaling, rents increasing;
- CCAP held 3 planning days;
- DTES groups formed a residents council.
4.
- Honour the Coast Salish people on whose unceded Traditional Territory the DTES resides.
- Celebrate our strong community of urban Aboriginal andlow-income people of many ancestries, abilities, cultures, health conditions, genders, ages and sexual orientations.
- Put people first and welcome all who advocate for affordable low-income housing and respect our vibrant community values.
- Ensure low-income people have affordable homes and access to resources to meet our needs.
- Unite in fair processes and act in peaceful and necessary ways to expand our abilities, overcome adversity and protect our community.
5.
- Working for justice and the community;
- Strengthening our community;
- Respecting each other and nature;
- Making decisions about our own neighbourhood;
- Accepting people without judgment;
- Cooperating;
- Appreciating diversity;
6.
- Caring;
- Respecting all generations and their roles increating a healthy community;
- Providing sanctuary for people who arentwelcome in other places;
- Building harmony;
- Empathizing with those who are suffering and honouring empathy knowledge.
7.
- Should be the foundation for future DTES development;
8.
- Lots of work needed;
- Divide change into things that can be done by residents alone, residents with help, and outsiders;
- DTES is famous for accomplishing the impossible, like getting CRAB Park etc.We want big changes in the DTES.
9.
- Build social housing for low-income people
- Tackle systemic poverty;
- Slow the pace of neighbourhood change
10.
- Improve safety by dealing with police and security guard harassment and brutality, non resident drinkers, and replacing the illegal drug market with a legal market based on health and human rights principles.
11.
- Improve health services;
- Support and fund DTES arts and culture;
- Embrace the history of the DTES founding Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese, and working class communties.
12.
- Develop an economy that serves and employs local residents;
- Ensure safe, welcoming and sufficient public spaces;
- Respect existing historical and neighbourhood scale.
13.
- Involve DTES residents in neighbourhood decisions;
- Attract children;
- Create a DTES image that honours and respects low income residents;
- Preserve the founding historical communities.
14.
- A place of sanctuary for suffering people;
- A centre of action for basic human rights;
- A place where new ideas and alternatives arise;
- Its a real community.
15.
- New resident council with unique structure;
- Prioritize Actions;
- Work with others inside and outside the community to implement them.
16.
- We have some questions for you.