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	<title>Downtown Eastside Women's Centre</title>
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	<description>Providing basic needs and positive change for women and children of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.</description>
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		<link>http://dewc.ca/?p=163</link>
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		<title>SRO Closures-375 Units Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Downtown Eastside is turning inside out, with record numbers of hotels and low-rent buildings kicking all of their tenants out.
Recent closures include:

Star Beach Haven, 19 rooms at 658 Alexander Street (today evicting all tenants as precondition of sale);
Backpacker&#8217;s Inn, 42 rooms at 7 West Hastings at Carrall (closed today by owners as precondition of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dewc.ca/?p=161</link>
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		<title>Downtown Eastside Women Ask Politicians for Housing Swap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Shelters, transition houses and safe houses in Vancouver?s Downtown Eastside (DTES) turn away about 200 people each night, leaving many on the streets without access to basic amenities.&#8221;
Read the full article here.
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		<link>http://dewc.ca/?p=101</link>
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		<title>BC Housing steps forward with funds for the Downtown Eastside Women&#8217;s Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;BC Housing has stepped forwared with funding for another six months of fuding for an emergency shelter at the Downtown Eastside Women&#8217;s Centre.&#8221;
Read the full article here.
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		<link>http://dewc.ca/?p=102</link>
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		<title>Activists demand funding for Downtown Eastside Women&#8217;s Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Activists are raising an alarm about the future of the Downtown Eastside Women&#8217;s Centre&#8217;s new role as an emergency shelter.&#8221;
Read the full article here.
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		<link>http://dewc.ca/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Homeless women protest at Downtown Eastside Womens Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday November 19, 2006 at 5:00pm when the Centre closed, over 30 women refused to leave insisting that the Centre remain open for 24 hours a day. This protest was led by the Elders who have been walking through ourstreets in the evenings caring for women.
“We have been telling them (staff) for years that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dewc.ca/?p=95</link>
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