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 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.-
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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.-
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Recommendation 27: Ensure that immigration status is not a barrier to social housing-
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Recommendation 28: Provide funds to Chinese societies in the Downtown Eastside that have housing units and are financially unable to upgrade their building to remain habitable on the condition that the rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.-
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Recommendation 29: Ensure that women and children fleeing violence have priority for decent social housing.-
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Recommendation 30: Increase funding for 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 31: Immediately build another 6,000 units of modular housing across BC and make a plan to transition those living in modular housing into permanent social housing.-
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Recommendation 32: Move from “supportive housing” models to tenant- and peer-controlled housing and housing that responds to resident-identified mental health needs.-
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Recommendation 33: 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 we will not be able to get people out of poverty.-
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Recommendation 34: Increase access to RTB services and provide proactive, door-to-door education and information about renters’ rights and early warning signs of renovictions. Provide support for a penalty-free “rent strike” or withholding rents for units that have poor maintenance, and landlords not doing anything to improve it. Have a real Renters’ Taskforce, from the point of view of renters, not landlords.-
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