A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
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
- Author
- Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd, Lori Culbert
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Greystone Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781553652984
- Release date
- 2009
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