CASE STUDY ON HOMELESSNESS: ATLANTA 1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS

“Unfortunately, in the case of Atlanta, community groups such as the Metro Task Force for the Homeless did not mobilize until after the city was awarded the Olympics in 1990.”
(Inside the Olympic Industry, p. 133)

HOMELESSNESS

GENERAL
“The Olympic Games have displaced more than 2 million people in the last 20 years, disproportionately affecting minorities such as the homeless, the poor, Roma and African-Americans.”
(Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions, www.cohre.org)

“[A]pproximately 300,000 people have been evicted, to date [2007], in New Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.”

Vancouver, B.C., September 21, 2006

Vancouver’s homelessness crisis is about to get a lot worse unless immediate action is taken, according to Pivot Legal Society’s new report, Cracks in the Foundation: Solving the Housing Crisis in Canada’s Poorest Neighbourhood.

Low-wage housing squeezed
By Matthew Burrows
The Georgia Straight, July 13, 2006

Pre-Olympic Vancouver is about to be hit by a wave of gentrification, according to a Pivot Legal Society lawyer, and Woodward's* is the “beachhead”.