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Homeless & housing insecure people
Recommendation 54:
Increase the province-wide stock of all forms of social housing.
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Recommendation 63:
Increase the number of paid work experience programs that build on youth’s lived expertise. For example, the youth-led “Light the Way Youth Homelessness Conference.”
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Recommendation 37:
Increase peer support opportunities and engage youth voice in paid focus groups or online surveys.
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Recommendation 40:
Increase harm reduction services for youth, including appropriate supplies, naloxone kits and training to use safely. In particular, youth in Williams Lake requested harm reduction services.
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Recommendation 189:
Increase funding for resources to assist Aboriginal women victims of male violence [including] provision of short and long-term housing for victims of violence. (p.8)
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Recommendation 11:
Increase access to shelters and provide youth with a safe place to be all night, especially if a second wave of COVID-19 hits. Youth recommend integrating places to isolate within youth shelters.
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Recommendation 49:
Implement vacancy control and tie rent to the unit.
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Recommendation 9:
Implement policies to reduce speculation & dampen property value inflation or other measures to improve tenureship of lease.
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Recommendation 6:
Immediate measures to ensure that funding for healthcare, housing, education and other services for Indigenous women, children and families are equitable to those available to non-Indigenous people in Canada and sufficient to enable effective protection and full enjoyment of their rights. Particular priority should be given to eliminating discrimination in funding for child and family services.
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- Access to justice ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Human rights system ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Pre-natal care ,
- Public services ,
- Racism ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 3:
The Attorney General must take immediate action to increase access to justice for people who believe they have been the victims of excessive force, discrimination, or harassment by police by: b. amending the Police Act to expand the mandate of the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC) in order to: i. ensure that all police officers and forces operating in BC fall under the mandate of the OPCC; ii. ensure that civilian investigators and civilian staff members are responsible for the entirety of the complaint resolution process; and iii. allow the OPCC to audit police complaints each year, particularly where they involve discrimination based on race, gender, poverty, or health status, and publicly report on areas of concern for further investigation or reform.
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