Statements by Alliance Against Displacement
You can find significant statements, reflections, press releases, and other documents written by Alliance Against Displacement on this page.
Statements from 2016
AAD response to Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver Nov 19, 2016 Stop Kinder Morgan rally
November 24, 2016
Open letter to Climate Convergence
Against The Dakota Access Pipeline From The Concrete Guts Of The Real Estate Snake
November 30, 2016
AAD solidarity statement with Standing Rock
F*ck The Experts: Build Our Homes Now
October 27, 2016
Statement on why AAD disrupted the Re:Address International Housing Summit
Together Against Displacement & Dispossession Summit Report Back
October 26, 2016
An 8-page pamphlet on unifying ideas and pledges that came out of the June 11-12, 2016 summit with residents of displaced communities across southern B.C.
Why AAD will not support the HALT rally against foreign investment in housing
September 16, 2016
Statement against the organizing politics of HALT (Housing Action by Local Taxpayers)
Open Statement to Canada’s Federal Housing Consultation
September 16, 2016
Letter to Ministers responsible for housing and homelessness
Occupiers Evicted By Police Call Out To Continue The Fight Against Demovictions
July 20, 2016
Statement from the Metrotown Demoviction occupation post-eviction
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
July 19, 2016
Re: Request for Urgent Appeal –Impending forced evictions in British Columbia, Canada
Are Foreigners To Blame For The Housing Crisis?
July 14, 2016
YouTube video of Maria Wallstam from Alliance Against Displacement speaking about the foreign investment myth
End The Foreign Investor Myth!
July 14, 2016
Our Problem is Free Market Investment as Housing Policy & Investors as a Global Social Class, Not “Foreign” Investors
Read the statement made at the Anti-Imperial Squat Rally on July 14, 2016 here.
Homeless & Demovicted People Unite!
July 10, 2016
Joint call-out from the simultaneous Vancouver & Burnaby housing justice occupations
“Whiners” Occupying BC Housing Office Demand Social Housing Now And Hands Off Victoria’s Tent City!
July 7, 2016
Statement from occupation of BC Housing office at Hastings & Gore, Vancouver
Historic summit unites local struggles into a movement against displacement
June 11-12, 2016
Report on the outcomes of Alliance Against Displacement’s spring 2016 organizing summit
End Homelessness, Not Tent Cities
May 25, 2016
An Open Letter to the Province of BC from over 100 Academics
Super InTent City Defense Rally Launches Three Principles For A Tent City Movement
March 7, 2016
The origins of three principles for a Tent City movement
No Mental Health Cops – Letter To Victoria City Council
February 11, 2016
Subject: Refuse the police budget increase – Defund the police to build homes and community controlled social programs
Statements from 2015
Designed to Displace: Burnaby’s 2015 Growth and Housing Policy Report Deflects, Denies, and Distorts City Council’s Responsibility for Demo-viction
November 12, 2015
Draft Op-Ed by the Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign
You Can’t Vote Against The Free Market
October 13, 2015
Lessons from the Greek struggle against austerity
Metrotown Residents Call For City To Save The Homes Of Hundreds On Silver Avenue: Stop Demolitions
June 23, 2015
Press release by Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign
Stop Demolitions In Burnaby: Save The Hundred Homes On Silver Avenue
June 23, 2015
Factsheet on Metrotown development plan and effects of demovictions
Statements from 2014
Report On SHA Housing Day Of Action At Burnaby Mountain
November 22, 2014
Social Housing Alliance joins Burnaby Mountain protection site for National Day of Action for housing
For Social Housing & Against Pipelines: Unite Struggles Against Displacement!
November 14, 2014
Statement in solidarity with Burnaby mountain land defenders
Letter To Vancouver City Council On Social Housing Definition
March 3, 2014
RE: The DTES Plan is an opportunity to define social housing as the housing homeless people need