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Recommendation 25:
Provide funds to build 10,000 units a year of low income social housing throughout the province. Replace 1,000 SRO units with self-contained, resident controlled social housing every year for five years in the DTES.
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Recommendation 4:
Provide funding to storage facilities in an easily-accessible area.
- Any confiscated belongings must be stored at a facility located within the Downtown Eastside.
- Storage facilities must be secure, easily accessible, of an adequate size, and informed by best practices and cultural safety for people who rely on public space.
- Retrieval processes must respect the limited access unhoused people have to identifying documentation.
- Storage facilities must provide long-term, low-barrier storage space (i.e. 3-6 months).
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Recommendation 4:
Provide funding to community organizations to support youth in finding rentals and developing life-skills to sustain housing. Youth need support in communicating with landlords to prevent conflict by addressing issues before they arise such as not being able to afford rent one month.
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Recommendation 87:
Provide funding to allow federal prisoners to be accommodated at provincial psychiatric hospitals when they require this level of care.
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Recommendation 15:
Provide funding for effective, results-producing culturally appropriate anti-violence and anti-oppression programs for men and boys.
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Recommendation 14:
Provide funding for culturally appropriate anti-violence and anti-oppression programs for Indigenous girls, women, and families.
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Recommendation 9:
Provide funding for case managers and peer navigation staff in community organizations that serve people with mental health and substance use-related disabilities and complex issues such as homelessness to help them gain access to the system. Trained people with lived or living experience should fill these roles wherever possible to ensure low barrier, empathetic and responsive services.
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Recommendation 35:
Provide free tuition for all postsecondary education for all Indigenous women and girls, and eliminate all existing student loans for Indigenous women and girls.
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Recommendation 22:
Provide free public transit for minors ages 13 to 18 and free or reduced-fee transit access for low-income households.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 18:
Provide face to face transition planning support. Youth report that the pandemic has increased isolation and anxiety, which makes it challenging to make big life decisions.
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