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  "A First Rate Take on Housing of Last Resort" by Wendy Stueck  
"Hart's Housing"
Hart's Housing
Hart Molthagen, the owner of Jubilee Rooms on Main, is inerviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Coorporation.
 
"Sounds Like Canada"
David Ash the owner of Dodson Rooms on Hastings, is interviewed by Shelagh Rogers of the CBC and discusses the Vivian Housing Centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
 
"It's Our Parallel Universe"
It's Our Parallel Universe
A short video that featrues parrallel interviews of a rich investor and a tenant in the Dodson Rooms.
 
 

The Power of Many From the February 17, 2009 Issue of The Globe and Mail. "(We) come from a Christian background, but don't take a conventional faith-based approach, which in housing terms typically means residents should be off drugs and booze."Clean to us is a clean building," Mr. Wiebe says. "We say, 'Come as you are.' "

 
     
  "The Power of Many" by Marcie Good  
 
The Power of Many From the December 2004 Issue of the Vancouver Sun. "...I ask him what makes the Dodson different from other hotels, and he finally gives me the words I've been waiting to hear. Those other places, they're residences, eh?' he says waving down Hastings Street.'This is home.'"
 
     
  "From Slum to Safe Haven" by Glenn Bohn  
  Christianity.comFrom the January 22, 2005 Issue of the Vancouver Sun. "Whatever the label -- "Christian social entrepreneurs," "benevolent businessmen" or just plain "developers" -- tenants at the Dodson say life in the hotel is better under the new management."  
     
  "Frontline Heroes" by Dimitrios Otis  
  Frontline HeroFrom the January 18, 2008 Issue of the Vancouver Courier. "...the people behind (the) front desks at SROs might be the city's best kept, secret heroes on the front line of human need... Egon Otten is a quiet, soft-spoken man. He is 69 and lives in West Vancouver just one block from the ocean ... Otten is a front desk worker at Dodson Rooms..."