A thousand dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the fight for its future
(2009)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Greystone Books : Made available through hoopla, 2009
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781926812281 (electronic bk.) MWT11817500, 192681228X (electronic bk.) 11817500
LANGUAGE
English
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In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America's poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver's Downtown Eastside but also all of North America's major cities and offers concrete, urgently needed solutions, including: - Continued support for Insite, the safe injection site - Decriminalization of prostitution and drugs - The transfer of addiction services to the Health Ministry, allowing detox into the medical system - More government-funded SROs and more affordable social housing

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