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Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

Recommendation 2: Strengthen bylaws and bylaw enforcement, to prevent losing more SROs due to inhabitability and disrepair.


Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

Recommendation 6: Restore minimum unit size to 320 sq. ft. so people have a home that feels permanent.


Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

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.


Municipal government

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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