Vancouver

In Vancouver, virtually every conversation is about space in one way or another. The ongoing housing affordability crisis casts a perpetual cloud of precarity and anxiety that rivals the city’s notoriously gray skies. In the art community, the omnipresent specters of rent hikes and “renovictions” threaten not only the homes of the city’s art workers, but also their studios, galleries, and performance spaces.

Race underlies many of these conversations. In 2016, British Columbia passed a