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In the House of the Lord

Andrea Bennett December 16, 2011 The Jackson Avenue Housing Co-operative and the religious battle raging in one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods.

Jackson Avenue

Ronnie Grigg walks with his daughters on Powell Street. Photograph by Nick Westover.

Ronnie Grigg and I stop our bikes at the corner of Jackson Avenue and East Cordova Street, just inside Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park. We turn and face a row of brightly coloured houses—red, yellow, blue, green. It is January 2011.

“This is it,” Grigg says. “Jackson Avenue Housing Co-op.” He points out the unit where he lives with his two young daughters. Several years ago, after Grigg’s marriage ended, the co-op stepped in to help, providing housing for him and his girls when they had …

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Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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