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Contact Information Best Practice Housing 25 Hastings Street East Vancouver, BC V6A 1M9 CANADA Phone: 1+(604) 879-4645 Fax: 1+(604) 608-0556 email: bestpracticehousing@telus.net
About Best Practice Housing
Best Practice Housing in the
Downtown Eastside of Vancouver is an
initiative that unites the efforts of benevolent
business, innovative social services and
agenda free altruism. The goal of Best
Practice Housing is to witness the
transformation of 150 privately owned rooming
houses.
Best Practice Rooming houses in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
• Dodson on Hastings • Jubilee on Main • Powell on Powell
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The community builders blog explores the power of small in healthy community development initiatives and seeks to understand why redemption is resilient in a world dominated by natural selection. Gordon K. Wiebe is a retired minister who lives with his wife, Catherine, at the Dodson Rooms on Hastings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Personal interests include quiet coffee meetings with benevolent business investors, innovative social service providers and agenda-free altruists. In Canada the Community Builders society coordinates best practice market housing initiaitves and models compassionate adoption for at-risk infants. In Sub-Saharan Africa the society promotes self-sufficiency through relationally-based mirco-enterprise. View the Blog
Best Practice Housing One Page
Outline
Download a Research Report
on the results of 140 interviews with
rooming house tenants and
homeless persons in the Downtown
Eastside of Vancouver.
What Have We Learned So Far? An
outline of findings from three self
sufficient and privately owned single
room occupancy facilities in
Vancouver, Canada.
Download a Best Practice Guide A
32 page guide that explains best
practices for tenants, volunteers,
staff, community workers and
potential benevolent investors.
Can the Very Rich solve the
homelessness problem? An essay
than explains how benevolent
investors are helping the homeless
from the bottom-up.