Impact of Metropolitan Vancouver

1
Impact of Metropolitan Vancouvers Governance
Structures on Social Inclusion and Poverty
Reduction

• Ken Lyotier
• Vancouver, 16 October 2007
• New Public Consortia In Brazil Project

2
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction

• Historic Overview in ownTownEastSide
• Economic development and real-estate development
• Affordable SROs for transient workers in primary
  industries
• Post WWII Disabled Veterans injured workers
  permanent residents of SROs
• Main line church denominations - missions for
  poor
• The welfare state and social advocacy
• Public health, housing, income assistance
• Growth of social service agencies and
  professional service delivery model
• De-institutionalization
• HIV/AIDS etc.
• Drugs Alcohol

3
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction

• Advocacy, Political Strategies and Bureaucracy
• Priorities Needs vs. Resources
• Empowerment for Whom?
• Community Development and Capacity Building
• Social Enterprise
• Social Justice Charity
• Influences in government decision making

4
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction

• Inclusion? Integration? Social colonialism?
• Not in my backyard
• The Ghetto
• Dispersal

5
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction

• A Binners Place
• Environmental Imperative
• Full employment
• Social structures law enforcement and standards
  and contradictions
• Values, aesthetics and safety