Downtown Eastside (English Wikipedia)

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"Kerry Jang on city's broken-down SROs: 'There's only so much we can do". CBC News. Toronto. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
Mercier, Stephanie. "Vancouver's Downtown Eastside residents dying at 8 times the national average". CBC News. No. 10 September 2015. Toronto. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
"Vancouver's Downtown Eastside feeling gentrification squeeze". CBC News. Toronto. The Canadian Press. 26 December 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2016.

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Vila-Rodriguez, Fidel; Panenka, William J. (1 December 2003). "The Hotel Study: Multimorbidity in a Community Sample Living in Marginal Housing". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 170 (12): 1413–1422. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12111439. PMID 23929175.
Lyons, Tara (2017). "The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing" (PDF). Sexualities. 20 (8): 881–903. doi:10.1177/1363460716676990. PMC 5786169. PMID 29379380. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
Martin, Carol Muree; Walia, Harsha (4 November 2019). "Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside". open.library.ubc.ca. doi:10.14288/1.0378104.
Wood, Evan; Spittal, Patricia M.; Small, Will; Kerr, Thomas; Li, Kathy; Hogg, Robert S.; Tyndall, Mark W.; Montaner, Julio S.G.; Schechter, Martin T. (11 May 2004). "Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 170 (10): 1551–1556. doi:10.1503/cmaj.1031928. ISSN 0820-3946. PMC 400719. PMID 15136548.
DeBeck, Kora; Kerr, Thomas; Nolan, Seonaid; Dong, Huiru; Montaner, Julio; Wood, Evan (6 January 2016). "Inability to access addiction treatment predicts injection initiation among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting". Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 11 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/s13011-015-0046-x. PMC 4702392. PMID 26733043.
Alexander, Don (31 December 2019). "Remembering the legacy of Shirley Chan: Saving Vancouver's Chinatown neighbourhood". doi:10.25316/IR-4290. Retrieved 16 November 2021 – via DTES Research Access Portal.

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Hughes, Josiah (5 October 2020). "Artists from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Come Together for '100 Block Rock' Compilation". Exclaim!. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

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Swanson, Jean; Chan, King-mong; Wallstam, Maria (2016). Our Homes Can't-Wait: CCAP's 2015 Hotel Survey and Housing Report (PDF) (Report). Carnegie Community Action Project. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.

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MacQueen, Ken (20 July 2015). "The science is in. And Insite works". Maclean's. Toronto. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
MacQueen, Ken (15 October 2012). "Vancouver's Downtown Eastside gets a new lease on life". Maclean's. Toronto. Retrieved 11 May 2016.

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Mackie, John (18 October 2008). "Carrall Street: Home to some of Vancouver's coolest bars, a stone's throw away from crackheads". The National Post. Toronto. Retrieved 21 April 2016.^{[dead link]}
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Hutchinson, Brian (16 March 2012). "Years after Pickton's arrest, the killings have stopped in the Downtown Eastside, the violence has not". National Post. Toronto. Retrieved 22 April 2016.

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Vila-Rodriguez, Fidel; Panenka, William J. (1 December 2003). "The Hotel Study: Multimorbidity in a Community Sample Living in Marginal Housing". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 170 (12): 1413–1422. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12111439. PMID 23929175.
Lyons, Tara (2017). "The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing" (PDF). Sexualities. 20 (8): 881–903. doi:10.1177/1363460716676990. PMC 5786169. PMID 29379380. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
Wood, Evan; Spittal, Patricia M.; Small, Will; Kerr, Thomas; Li, Kathy; Hogg, Robert S.; Tyndall, Mark W.; Montaner, Julio S.G.; Schechter, Martin T. (11 May 2004). "Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 170 (10): 1551–1556. doi:10.1503/cmaj.1031928. ISSN 0820-3946. PMC 400719. PMID 15136548.
DeBeck, Kora; Kerr, Thomas; Nolan, Seonaid; Dong, Huiru; Montaner, Julio; Wood, Evan (6 January 2016). "Inability to access addiction treatment predicts injection initiation among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting". Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 11 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/s13011-015-0046-x. PMC 4702392. PMID 26733043.

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Lyons, Tara (2017). "The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing" (PDF). Sexualities. 20 (8): 881–903. doi:10.1177/1363460716676990. PMC 5786169. PMID 29379380. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
Wood, Evan; Spittal, Patricia M.; Small, Will; Kerr, Thomas; Li, Kathy; Hogg, Robert S.; Tyndall, Mark W.; Montaner, Julio S.G.; Schechter, Martin T. (11 May 2004). "Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 170 (10): 1551–1556. doi:10.1503/cmaj.1031928. ISSN 0820-3946. PMC 400719. PMID 15136548.
DeBeck, Kora; Kerr, Thomas; Nolan, Seonaid; Dong, Huiru; Montaner, Julio; Wood, Evan (6 January 2016). "Inability to access addiction treatment predicts injection initiation among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting". Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 11 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/s13011-015-0046-x. PMC 4702392. PMID 26733043.

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Lyons, Tara (2017). "The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing" (PDF). Sexualities. 20 (8): 881–903. doi:10.1177/1363460716676990. PMC 5786169. PMID 29379380. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

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Vila-Rodriguez, Fidel; Panenka, William J. (1 December 2003). "The Hotel Study: Multimorbidity in a Community Sample Living in Marginal Housing". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 170 (12): 1413–1422. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12111439. PMID 23929175.

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Lupick, Travis (2 October 2016). "10 years of police data reveals how gentrification has affected crime in the Downtown Eastside". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
Elien, Shadi (13 February 2009). "Women's Memorial March to take place on Valentine's Day". The Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
Lupick, Travis (10 August 2013). "Study finds steep drug and mental health challenges for Downtown Eastside single-occupancy tenants". The Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
Cole, Yolande (7 May 2014). "Downtown Eastside poet and activist Bud Osborn remembered as "hero"". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
Cole, Yolande (13 September 2013). "Vancouver police and mayor issue recommendations to address mental health "crisis"". The Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
"Vancouver's ill and addicted lost in a mental-health care maze". The Georgia Straight. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
Lupick, Travis (6 January 2016). "Downtown Eastside activists fear 2016 will see a spike in Vancouver homeless". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
Cole, Yolande (29 June 2011). "Lawsuit launched against Downtown Eastside building owners". The Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
Lupick, Travis (9 April 2014). "Downtown Eastside residents fear dispersal due to Local Area Plan". The Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
Lupick, Travis (19 August 2015). "Vancouver hospitals predict 2015 will see emergency mental-health visits surpass 10,000". The Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 26 May 2016.

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Strathcona Business Improvement Association, Ray-Cam Community Association, and Inner City Safety Society (2012). "Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: A Community in Need of Balance" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2016. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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Matas, Robert (13 February 2009). "The Money Pit". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
Quinn, Stephen (14 March 2014). "Downtown Eastside redevelopment debate is the same old game". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
Brethour, Patrick (13 February 2009). "Exclusive demographic picture: A comparison of key statistics in the DTES, Vancouver, B.C. and Canada". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
Woo, Andrea (7 January 2016). "Half of Downtown Eastside's homeless residents came from other areas: study". CBC News. Toronto. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
Woo, Andrea (6 January 2016). "Vancouver subset struggling to escape corrections system's 'revolving door,' study says". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
Luk, Vivian (13 October 2013). "How drugs, lack of safe housing fuel Vancouver's mental-health crisis". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
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Dhillon, Sunny (27 February 2014). "Vancouver reveals $1-billion plan for Downtown Eastside revival". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
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Dyck, Bruce Daniel (23 February 2018). Three reincarnations of the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret: Entertainment, gentrification, and respectability in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 1952–84 (M.A. thesis). Simon Fraser University. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021 – via dtesresearchaccess.ubc.ca.
Alexander, Don (31 December 2019). "Remembering the legacy of Shirley Chan: Saving Vancouver's Chinatown neighbourhood". doi:10.25316/IR-4290. Retrieved 16 November 2021 – via DTES Research Access Portal.

cfenet.ubc.ca

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Martin, Carol Muree; Walia, Harsha (4 November 2019). "Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside". open.library.ubc.ca. doi:10.14288/1.0378104.

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Culbert, Lori; McMartin, Peter (27 June 2014). "Downtown Eastside: 260 agencies, housing sites crowd Downtown Eastside". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
Mackie, John (19 February 2014). "Japantown: Vancouver's lost neighbourhood". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
"Drug Situation in Vancouver, 2nd Edition" (PDF). British Columbia Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS (2nd ed.). Urban Health Research Initiative of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
Morton, Brian (28 February 2015). "Downtown Eastside tenants love their renovated SRO suite". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
"Vancouver Downtown Eastside Putting it All Together: Plans Policies, Programs, Projects, and Proposals: A Synthesis" (PDF). Building Community Society of Greater Vancouver. July 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
Dyck, Bruce Daniel (23 February 2018). Three reincarnations of the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret: Entertainment, gentrification, and respectability in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 1952–84 (M.A. thesis). Simon Fraser University. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021 – via dtesresearchaccess.ubc.ca.
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