Tool · DTES Explorer

Explore the Downtown Eastside.

The same DTES pilot network, placed on the neighbourhood it came from. Eleven real organizations sit at their true addresses. Around them, the people they serve and the systems that press on the neighbourhood. Click a marker to discover an organization: its Street View, its transmutation grade, and the fulfillment and deprivation flows it carries. Green is fulfillment, red is deprivation.

What This Shows

The force-directed network abstracts the DTES pilot into a graph. This map puts it back on the ground. The eleven organizations are placed at their real addresses, from Carnegie at Main and Hastings to WISH on Alexander Street. The residents they serve appear as a scatter across the neighbourhood core; their positions are illustrative and carry no real address, no more identifying than the pseudonymized graph. The eight systems (housing, healthcare, criminal justice, income support, drug supply, and others) sit on the perimeter, and their deprivation flows read as red lines sweeping inward. That inward red is the extraction gradient the pilot documented. The green that accumulates around the mutual-aid organizations is the fulfillment that residents and small organizations generate for each other.

Each organization carries a transmutation grade computed from its own flows and its archetype. Carnegie, which gives fulfillment across seven relationships with no deprivation, grades an A. A conduit that passes support along without transforming it grades a C. The grade is where a conversation starts.