Jim Green Memorial Lecture: Observations in Community Development in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement presented The First Annual Jim Green Memorial Lecture at SFU, "Observations in Community Development in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside" by Ken Lyotier. Since the 1970s, there has been a growing public awareness of the Downtown Eastside as a distinct community in our City.

In the first annual Jim Green Memorial Lecture, Ken Lyotier, a longtime resident of the Downtown Eastside, shared some observations and recollections.  He used a "social change" lens to examine how DERA, CRAB Park, United We Can, non market housing development, and other community building projects have affected life in this part of Vancouver.

The lecture focused on how common emotional and learning experiences can generate a legacy of social bonds that in turn become a source of social capital to be used by social change agents in the Downtown Eastside.