there are communities as shown by several community centres in vancouver... when the gov't didn't have funds for them to do certain things decades ago they told the communities to group together, fund raise, etc to make it happen for themselves...and they did...and the communities came together to build good community centres/programs, etc. and still do.
in the last few years Vision decided to swoop in and tried to take control with the one-pass and reallocation of funds, etc. fortunately those communities stuck up for themselves and their communities... funny how in the last election the majority of the vancouver parks board who were vision members were not re-elected...unfortunately we could not do the same to moonbeam. i'm glad those community centres tried to create awareness as to what was happening otherwise i wouldn't have known this was happening. i stumbled on to one of those events by accident a couple years back.
Court stops Vancouver park board from evicting dissident community centre associations