Wednesday, March 5, 1986
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Newsstand Price 40¢ Vol. 49, No. 8

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‘Act now to halt
Expo evictions,’ —
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and inform — in the quest for tounist dollars.

First it was the Downtown Eastside,
which has been in the headlines for the past
two weeks following the mass evictions by
two hotels of their tenants, some of whom
have been residents for as long as 30 years.

Now the eviction epidemic is spreading,
with West End apartment owners throwing
out their residents in preparation for the
anticipated Expo trade. __.

With fears that the Mount Pleasant
neighborhood will be the next scene of mass
evictions, residents, with the backing of city
officials, are organizing and pressing the
provincial government to enact legislative
clout.

The Downtown Eastside Residents
Association (DERA) has been rallying
hotel and rooming house dwellers in the
wake of full scale evictions from two area
hotels — the Patricia and the Regal —
while the Tenants Rights Action Centre has
found itself swamped with complaints fol-
lowing a rash of West End evictions.

But so far, Socred cabinet ministers who
could enact necessary legislation have
refused to do so.

Some 400 mainly Downtown Eastside
residents packed the Ukrainian Hall Feb. 25
to tell Expo chairman Jimmy Pattison they

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TOP: Downtown Eastside residents pro-
test evictions of tenants on one week's
notice from Patricia Hotel, which is clear-
ing its premises for the Expo trade.

BOTTOM: Evicted Patricia Hotel resi-
dent Ray Neita demands action at
packed meeting of Downtown Eastside
residents Feb. 25, which hit provincial
government for inaction.