canon s90: first three weeks
having fun with this camera.
31 May
2009
Little Mountain public housing
Jogged up to the boarded up little mountain public housing site tonight. Walking through 15 acres of deserted land in the middle of Vancouver feels a little post apocalyptic.
http://www.littlemountain.ca/index.html (no timeline updates since May 2008...)
http://www.littlemountain.ca/index.html (no timeline updates since May 2008...)
Little Mountain Housing (33rd to 37th Avenues, between Ontario and Main Streets), is home to about 570 people. It's the oldest public housing development in Vancouver and has 224 units-with one, two and three bedrooms.
The stucco buildings are set in 15.27 acres and consist of 176 three-storey walk-up apartments and 48 three-level rowhouses. The buildings are set apart from one another and from any neighbouring private houses by large tracts of grass. There are no retail or commercial facilities on site.
The buildings were designed by Vancouver architects Sharp and Thompson, Berwick, Pratt between 1953 and 1954. The post-war baby boom produced a demand for housing and the federal government's new Canada (then Central) Mortgage and Housing Corporation responded by financing rental projects for low-income families.
