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The Woodward’s Project: Only the beginning …
Laura Leyshon for National Post
Brian Hutchinson, pictured: “The biggest surprise? Almost everything I witnessed in the Woodward’s complex that could be called ‘disturbing’ occurred inside the two private condo towers. They did not involve anyone from the development’s social housing components, or from the neighbourhood’s mean streets.”
July 3, 2010 – 1:00 pm
The Post’s Brian Hutchinson was embedded for a month in the country’s most notorious neighbourhood, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Woodward’s Project is an online and print series that chronicles his experiences as part of a unique urban experiment to bring together rich and poor in the most derelict, subsidized and politicized neighbourhood in Canada. This is the last installment in the series.
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