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 17: Aggressively lobby the provincial government to raise welfare to the Federal government’s Market Basket Measure (about $1,675 a month for a single person in 2017) and implement rent control so that any social assistance increase does not go directly to landlords.

Municipal government

Recommendation 18: Recognize the right to housing at the local government level and making it a “rights-based city” like the City of Montreal.

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 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

Provincial government

Recommendation 32: Move from “supportive housing” models to tenant- and peer-controlled housing and housing that responds to resident-identified mental health needs.

Provincial government

Recommendation 36: Recognize the right to housing at the provincial government level and declare BC a “rights-based” province.