Downtown Eastside, Vancouver
GPTKB entity
Statements (53)
Predicate | Object |
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gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:neighborhood
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gptkbp:artworkBy |
public murals
community art projects |
gptkbp:borderedBy |
gptkb:Downtown_Vancouver
bay Gastown Strathcona |
gptkbp:demographics |
seniors
people with disabilities low-income residents Indigenous population |
gptkbp:hasCrisis |
opioid epidemic
HIV/AIDS epidemic |
gptkbp:hasEvent |
March for Women’s Memorial
annual Heart of the City Festival |
gptkbp:hasLandmark |
gptkb:Pigeon_Park
gptkb:Oppenheimer_Park Carnegie Community Centre Insite |
gptkbp:hasLibrary |
gptkb:Carnegie_Library
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gptkbp:hasPopulation |
approximately 18,000 (as of 2016)
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gptkbp:hasServiceTo |
gptkb:Downtown_Community_Health_Centre
PHS Community Services Society |
gptkbp:hasShelter |
First United Church shelter
Lookout Emergency Aid Society |
gptkbp:hasStreet |
gptkb:Powell_Street
gptkb:Cordova_Street gptkb:East_Hastings_Street Main Street |
gptkbp:hasSupervisedInjectionSite |
Insite
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gptkbp:historicalPeriod |
historically working-class area
one of Vancouver's oldest neighborhoods site of early Vancouver development |
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Downtown Eastside, Vancouver
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gptkbp:knownFor |
homelessness
community activism drug use harm reduction programs high rates of poverty |
gptkbp:locatedIn |
gptkb:British_Columbia
gptkb:Canada gptkb:Vancouver |
gptkbp:mediaCoverage |
frequent
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gptkbp:organization |
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Carnegie Community Action Project Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Portland Hotel Society |
gptkbp:postalCode |
gptkb:V6A
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gptkbp:socialIssues |
mental health challenges
affordable housing shortage overdose crisis |
gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Artspeak,_Vancouver
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gptkbp:bfsLayer |
8
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