Advocacy

Community Economic Development for COVID-19 Recovery in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

May 25th, 2020

We are encouraging the City of Vancouver to continue working with community partners to enhance existing and established policy and programs as a means to support the next steps in recovery of COVID-19 and to further the social, health and economic development in the DTES.

Click to read our joint letter with Exchange Inner City to the City of Vancouver

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