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2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay: Ellen Woodsworth

Have a heart vote for housing. Send your MP a valentine asking them to vote for Bill C 304. Most of the time politicians are asking you for your vote, now you can ask them for their vote on Bill C 304, an act to ensure secure adequate, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians.

Send a Valentine to your MP before February 14, Valentines Day

This Week City of Vancouver Councilor Ellen Woodsworth is participating in the Homelessness Relay Hunger Strike to advocate for a national housing plan that would be created by Bill C-304.

Each week new volunteers take on the Wooden Spoon and participate in a week long fast for 7 days. The hunger strike will continue past the 2010 Olympics to June 2010.

We are calling for the re-establishment of a National Housing Program based on the One Percent Solution in Canada.

The City has been proactive on dealing with homelessness, but the temporary HEAT shelters are just that temporary. They close on April 30. To truly solve homelessness, we need to get other levels of government on board. Canada is the only G8 country without a national housing strategy. The cost of keeping people off the street is significantly cheaper than the medical and other associated costs of leaving them on the streets the hunger strike is another way to bring attention to our need for a national housing program.

Solving homelessness isnt as complicated as curing cancer its a matter of political will. We need to build homes and put supports in them so people are successful.

Some stats:

•Canada's homeless population is somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 people and 1.7 million residents across the country struggle with housing affordability issues.
•There are between 10,500 and 15,000 homeless people in British Columbia.
•A homeless person dies every 12 days in British Columbia.
•The 2008 homelessness count identified 2,660 people who were homeless in the Metro Vancouver region.
•Homelessness has more than doubled since the Olympics were awarded to Vancouver.
•Roughly half of all Canadians live in fear of poverty, and 49 per cent polled believe they might be poverty stricken if they missed one or two pay cheques.
•73% of homeless aboriginal people are street homeless in Metro Vancouver.
•45% of homeless women in Metro Vancouver are aboriginal.

Get involved!

Take a Valentines day card from Ellen and send it to your MP or the Prime Minister! Tell them to support Bill C04 MP Libby Davies bill to start a national housing program. Have a heart for housing!

Where Ellen will be during her hunger strike:

Sunday, Feb 7 (11am): spoon exchange at Pigeon Park then the Poverty Olympics at the Japanese Hall (487 Alexander St)

Monday, Feb 8 (11am-2pm): stationed at Trade and Convention Centre with Walk for Justice sisters

Tuesday, Feb 9 (11am-2pm): walk about in West End (meet at Davie and Thurlow)

Wednesday, Feb 10 (4pm-6pm): stationed at Broadway and Commercial

Thursday, Feb 11 (11am-2pm): Hastings St at Woodwards

Friday, Feb 12 (11am-2pm) stationed at Robson Square

Saturday (9:30am): Peace Walk and Meditation (meet at 33rd Ave and Cambie) and going on to Little Mountain Housing Project

Sunday (9:00am): Lunar New Year Parade and Carnegie Community Centre Memorial March for the Missing Women of DTES