A member of a well-known social housing advocacy group that has taken a stand against gentrification on the Downtown Eastside says they have nothing to do with recent violence against development.
Jean Swanson says the Carnegie Community Action Project is working to protect low-income residents from being pushed out in the area, but they don't participate in hurtful acts.
“We're just trying to get a social justice zone, we're trying to get the city to re-zone the Oppenheimer area for social housing, we're trying to get the city to buy land for social housing, we're trying to get higher welfare rates.”
She says if people want to help, they should write the city, not set fires.
A self-proclaimed anarchist group has taken credit for burning down on an East Vancouver home that’s under construction early yesterday morning and has threatened further violence.