Check out AHA Media's Coverage of the Inner City Economic Strategy Forum that took place on September 22, 2012.

"The Inner City Economic Strategy seeks to bring together the residents of the community, with other residents, businesses, service providers and all levels government. The City of Vancouver is committed to working with the community to create a comprehensive economic strategy which seeks to empower the residents of the Downtown Eastside. Unique populations have to be considered, women, Aboriginal, youth, immigrant and the aging population"

http://www.straight.com/article-805586/vancouver/rent-bank-lowincome-residents-crisis-launched-vancouver

Mike Howell maps the lives of two members of ALIVE, Gina Hawkins and Melanie Lecoy, as they confront the realities of motherhood in the Inner City in both innovative and ordinary ways

Click here to read the two part series