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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Recommendation 1: Expropriate the Balmoral and Regent hotels, and prosecute the owners to the fullest extent under the law, for outstanding bylaw infractions in any of their properties.-
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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 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 4: Buy or lease SRO hotels, especially near the location of the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the South end of the DTES to prevent them from gentrifying and pushing out low income residents.-
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Recommendation 5: Designate enough land for 6,000 units of social housing in the Downtown Eastside to show senior levels of government that the City is serious about solving the housing crisis.-
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Recommendation 6: Restore minimum unit size to 320 sq. ft. so people have a home that feels permanent.-
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Recommendation 7: Do not provide incentives to profit or non-profit SRO owners to upgrade their units unless rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.-
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Recommendation 8: Amend the SRA bylaw to define SRO hotel “conversion” to mean raising rents above welfare and pension level shelter rates. Include zero-eviction conditions in all renovation and building permits.-
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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 10: Support an SRO resident organizer structure to educate, support and liaise between tenants and bylaw and Residential Tenancy Branch.-
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