In May 2019, the “Displaced: 2018 Hotel Survey & Housing Report” was published by Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP). This report measures whether low income people can afford to remain living in their neighbourhood.
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Provincial government
Recommendation 31: Immediately build another 6,000 units of modular housing across BC and make a plan to transition those living in modular housing into permanent social housing.-
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Provincial government
Recommendation 32: Move from “supportive housing” models to tenant- and peer-controlled housing and housing that responds to resident-identified mental health needs.-
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Provincial government
Recommendation 33: Stop requiring social housing and shelter/pension-rate housing to be self-sustaining. The concept of self-sufficiency and austerity around affordable housing needs to change otherwise we will not be able to get people out of poverty.-
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Provincial government
Recommendation 34: Increase access to RTB services and provide proactive, door-to-door education and information about renters’ rights and early warning signs of renovictions. Provide support for a penalty-free “rent strike” or withholding rents for units that have poor maintenance, and landlords not doing anything to improve it. Have a real Renters’ Taskforce, from the point of view of renters, not landlords.-
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Provincial government
Recommendation 35: Update the Poverty Reduction Plan to prevent, not “reduce”, dislocation and homelessness-
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Provincial government
Recommendation 36: Recognize the right to housing at the provincial government level and declare BC a “rights-based” province.-
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Federal government
Recommendation 37: Provide funds to build low income social housing in the DTES to replace 1,000 SRO units per year for the next five years.-
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Federal government
Recommendation 38: Provide funds to Chinese societies in the Downtown Eastside that have housing units and are financially unable to upgrade their building to remain habitable on the condition that the rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.-
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Federal government
Recommendation 39: Rather than just stating in the National Housing Strategy a goal of reducing chronic homelessness by 50% over the next decade, provide funds to build enough social housing to end homelessness now.-
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Federal government
Recommendation 40: Return Housing First as the key strategy of the National Homelessness Strategy and implement the Indigenous Definition of Homelessness-
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