"Vancouver Through the Years": September 2017

I used to work in the Oakridge area of Vancouver and took a lot of lunch time strolls. Some walks took me by multi-million dollar houses and by social housing complexes. In March of 2009, we walked down to explore the Little Mountain Housing project at 37th and Ontario Street. At that time most of the buildings were empty. It was hoped that a new social housing project would be developed to help with the housing stress of Vancouver but sadly almost 10 years later and not much has changed except for a big empty lot. It was sad to see an abandoned community that had existed since the 1950s, but it's even sadder today to see nothing has changed especially when housing is a crisis in Vancouver. The following photos show the complex with some profound murals painted by previous tenants and artists. This was also at a time when a lot of money was being spent on the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics so there was a lot of criticism from some groups.