In 2019, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre published the report entitled “RED WOMEN RISING: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside” and written by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga’a – Gitanyow) and Harsha Walia. This report is the first comprehensive project with Indigenous women survivors in the DTES figuring at the very centre of community research, rather than as a secondary statistic.
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
Legislative protections
Recommendation 104: Landlords and property managers must be licensed and make licenses revocable in cases of significant misconduct.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 105: An annual audit of all landlords and property managers to track refusal of housing and housing discrimination.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 106: Amend the provincial Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including health status and drug use.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 107: Legalize tent cities and mobile home parks.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 108: Amend the City of Vancouver Single Room Accommodation bylaw to define SRO conversion to mean raising rents above income assistance-shelter rates. Include zero–eviction conditions in all renovation and building permits.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 109: Stop market housing development in the DTES to preserve land for social housing. Once adequate social housing is built, abide by the City of Vancouver’s 1:1 rate of change principle.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 110: All levels of government must buy or lease SRO hotels to prevent them from gentrifying and pushing out low-income residents.-
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Support Indigenous families
Recommendation 121: Increase financial amounts provided to caregivers under MCFD’s Home of a Relative program.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 152: End the criminalization of homelessness by eliminating bylaw infractions and criminal charges for sleeping or tenting in public spaces, and end the displacement of tent cities.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 167: Implement existing recommendations in Justice Reform for British Columbia by Community Legal Assistance Society, Pivot Legal Society, West Coast LEAF, and B.C. Civil Liberties Association.-
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- Access to justice ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- International human rights ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Public services
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