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 11: Embrace a women-centred philosophy in hotels with policies and practices that ensure women’s access and safety in all spaces, especially for Indigenous women and women of colour.-
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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 13: Change the City’s definition of social housing so that low income people are not excluded from any social housing.-
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Recommendation 14: Adopt and implement the People’s Vision for Chinatown.-
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Recommendation 15: Increase investment in both capital and operating costs for shelter-rate housing, including through the Empty Homes tax, borrowing, reducing the annual police budget, and taxing homes worth over $5,000,000. Invest specifically in permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.-
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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 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.-
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Recommendation 18: Recognize the right to housing at the local government level and making it a “rights-based city” like the City of Montreal.-
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Recommendation 21: Immediately increase the shelter component of social assistance to at least $525 a month.-
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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).-
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