Balmoral SRO tenants occupy Vancouver mayor's office
Tenants of the Balmoral, a single-room occupancy hotel in the downtown eastside, have occupied Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson's City Hall office. In a statement, the tenants, who have complained about “disgusting” conditions at the hotel, say they …
Roberta Wescenberg is a resident of the Balmoral Hotel, a building that may soon evict all its tenants. PHOTOS BY Rafal Gerszak/The Globe and Mail. Wendy Stueck. VANCOUVER The Globe and Mail Last 01, 2017 9:53PM EDT.
Hours after Vancouver's mayor slammed the owners of a “disgusting” Downtown Eastside hotel and threatened legal action, its tenants stormed city hall and staged a sit-in outside council chambers. In recent years, the Balmoral Hotel at 159 East Hastings …
A group of tenants from a rundown single-room occupancy hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside stormed City Hall Thursday to demand officials do something about their increasingly intolerable living conditions. The fed-up residents of the Balmoral …
More than 20 residents of a single room occupancy hotel on the Downtown Eastside protested in Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson's city hall office for several hours Wednesday, saying they wouldn't leave until the issues with the rotting building are
