Concerned residents in the Metrotown area are planning another rally in an attempt to protect low-income housing from redevelopment.
The rally is set for Saturday, Sept. 19, at 2 p.m. at the Metrotown SkyTrain Station, and the plan is to march around the neighbourhood.
“The purpose to the rally is to let people be aware of what’s going on in their neighbourhood and also to get their spirits up,” said Kaye Bedford, a member of the Social Housing Alliance, a group of concerned residents from the Lower Mainland.
Low-income folks, the elderly and immigrants are being forced out of their low-cost apartments to make way for developers and new high rises, according Bedford, whose own apartment building on Silver Avenue is slated for demolition.
This rally is just the latest in a series of demonstrations in the area, which has one of the largest concentrations of rental housing in Burnaby.
Three groups - the Social Housing Alliance, the Burnaby ACORN chapter and the Maywood Residents' Association - have joined forces to create a campaign to stop demolitions in Burnaby.
