Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is often referred to as “Canada’s poorest postal code.” While it is not especially dangerous, it is an extremely poor neighborhood that is suffering from a massive health epidemic. A poverty cluster-fuck, if you will. According to a United Nations report, 30 percent of the neighborhood’s population suffers from HIV and [fewer than] 70 percent have Hep C. At least one-third are intravenous drug users, with countless more addicted to crack cocaine.
However, the neighborhood’s spirit is very strong and benefits from a lot of amazing community activism. Because it is so dense, and so close to the city’s downtown, it also attracts a lot of media and public attention.
As businesses closed and welfare failed to keep up with inflation, the neighborhood became overrun with drug abuse, homelessness and prostitution. And even though roughly 200 people were dying from overdoses every year, it took years before governments would approve a safe-injection site, which the federal government is now trying to shut down.
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