42 search results for
Carnegie Community Action Project
Recommendation 3:
Use City powers to impose non-profit management on hotels with outstanding Standards of Maintenance violations, and ensure that tenants have the protection of the Residential Tenancy Act.
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Recommendation 35:
Update the Poverty Reduction Plan to prevent, not “reduce”, dislocation and homelessness
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Recommendation 42:
Take concrete steps toward meeting Canada’s international obligation to respect the right to adequate housing and to respect the spirit of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Recommendation 10:
Support an SRO resident organizer structure to educate, support and liaise between tenants and bylaw and Residential Tenancy Branch.
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Recommendation 2:
Strengthen bylaws and bylaw enforcement, to prevent losing more SROs due to inhabitability and disrepair.
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Recommendation 16:
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 will not be able to get people out of poverty.
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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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Recommendation 9:
Stop market housing development in the DTES to keep property values low and preserved for social housing until SRO hotels have been replaced with safe, secure, self-contained, resident-controlled, and low income social housing and until no one needs to sleep on the streets or in shelters.
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Recommendation 12:
Revisit Downtown Eastside zoning regulations to ensure that they require new developments to include more social housing that low income people can afford.
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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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