1.

• Show you our Vision for the DTES;

Make a case for preserving our community assets;

Convince you to help us implement our Vision.

2. 3.

We told you about the DTES assets and 10 year stabilization plan

HAHR, Woodwards opened, hotels upscaling, rents increasing;

CCAP held 3 planning days;

DTES groups formed a residents council.

4.

Honour the Coast Salish people on whose unceded Traditional Territory the DTES resides.

Celebrate our strong community of urban Aboriginal andlow-income people of many ancestries, abilities, cultures, health conditions, genders, ages and sexual orientations.

Put people first and welcome all who advocate for affordable low-income housing and respect our vibrant community values.

Ensure low-income people have affordable homes and access to resources to meet our needs.

Unite in fair processes and act in peaceful and necessary ways to expand our abilities, overcome adversity and protect our community.

5.

Working for justice and the community;

Strengthening our community;

Respecting each other and nature;

Making decisions about our own neighbourhood;

Accepting people without judgment;

Cooperating;

Appreciating diversity;

6.

Caring;

Respecting all generations and their roles increating a healthy community;

Providing sanctuary for people who arentwelcome in other places;

Building harmony;

Empathizing with those who are suffering and honouring empathy knowledge.

7.

Should be the foundation for future DTES development;

8.

Lots of work needed;

Divide change into things that can be done by residents alone, residents with help, and outsiders;

DTES is famous for accomplishing the impossible, like getting CRAB Park etc.We want big changes in the DTES.

9.

Build social housing for low-income people

Tackle systemic poverty;

Slow the pace of neighbourhood change

10.

Improve safety by dealing with police and security guard harassment and brutality, non resident drinkers, and replacing the illegal drug market with a legal market based on health and human rights principles.

11.

Improve health services;

Support and fund DTES arts and culture;

Embrace the history of the DTES founding Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese, and working class communties.

12.

Develop an economy that serves and employs local residents;

Ensure safe, welcoming and sufficient public spaces;

Respect existing historical and neighbourhood scale.

13.

Involve DTES residents in neighbourhood decisions;

Attract children;

Create a DTES image that honours and respects low income residents;

Preserve the founding historical communities.

14.

A place of sanctuary for suffering people;

A centre of action for basic human rights;

A place where new ideas and alternatives arise;

Its a real community.

15.

New resident council with unique structure;

Prioritize Actions;

Work with others inside and outside the community to implement them.

16.

We have some questions for you.