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.

Provincial government

Recommendation 19: Raise welfare to the Federal government’s Market Basket Measure (about $1,665 a month for a single person in 2016).

Provincial government

Recommendation 20: Raise disability to at least $300 more than welfare.

Provincial government

Recommendation 21: Immediately increase the shelter component of social assistance to at least $525 a month.

Provincial government

Recommendation 22: Raise minimum wage to at least $15 an hour with regular increases after that up to a Living Wage (about $19.50/hour in Vancouver).

Provincial government

Recommendation 23: Reform the Residential Tenancy Act to provide effective rent control by the rental unit rather than the tenant. This will stop giving landlords an incentive to evict low income people and end renovictions. The Province should also implement a rent freeze and end the annual allowable rent increase (2.5% in 2019).

Provincial government

Recommendation 24: Ensure that residents of all non-profit social housing, including SRO rooms, supportive housing projects and emergency shelters, have full tenant rights under the Residential Tenancy Act.

Provincial government

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.

Provincial government

Recommendation 26: Amend the BC Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including class, poverty and drug use.

Provincial government

Recommendation 27: Ensure that immigration status is not a barrier to social housing