homelessness Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/homelessness/ Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:16:11 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Unlimited Growth Increases the Divide: RIP George Riste https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/28/unlimited-growth-increases-the-divide-george-riste/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/28/unlimited-growth-increases-the-divide-george-riste/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:16:11 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=10774

This small residential hotel in downtown Vancouver was stubbornly saved from demolition by its amazing owner, the quietly determined George Riste. George resisted numerous attempts by BC Hydro to buy his building, continually asserting the rights of his tenants to remain exactly where they were.  

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Pierre Trudeau (white suit) entering Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre, UN-Habitat Conference on Human Settlements, 1976. Courtesy CBC. All rights reserved.

Happy World Habitat Day! I bet you didn’t know that the UN has declared October 1 World Habitat Day.

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