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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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.-
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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.-
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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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Municipal government
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 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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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).-
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Recommendation 20: Raise disability to at least $300 more than welfare.-
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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).-
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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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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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