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 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
Legislative protections
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
Legislative protections
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
End child apprehensions
Recommendation 115: End the apprehension of Indigenous children due to poverty or Eurocentric ideas of neglect that stem from a legacy of colonization. Poverty must not be conflated with neglect or mistreatment, and removing children from their families exacerbates cycles of trauma and poverty.-
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Support Indigenous families
Recommendation 120: Ensure families are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances.-
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Support Indigenous families
Recommendation 123: Guarantee free individualized support such as culturally appropriate parenting programs; detox on demand; and counselling for mothers with mental health diagnoses, learning disabilities, drug use dependence, and who are survivors of domestic violence.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 140: Reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by VPD in the DTES.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 141: Develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences.-
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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
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 153: End transit fare evasion ticketing.-
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