Housing advocates and homeless residents occupy 58 West Hastings

An empty lot on Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside was occupied Tuesday by the same housing protesters and homeless residents who shut down Vancouver City Hall on May 1.
According to a statement, the group called Our Homes Can’t Wait Coalition is demanding 100 per cent welfare and pension rate housing at 58 West Hastings, the former site of a tent city homeless camp.The site is one of four construction projects in the DTES receiving $83 million in provincial funding to