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
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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 to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 137: Eliminate the use of VPD restraint devices such as the hobble restraint device, and end the use of police dogs as weapons.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 138: Eliminate searches and monitoring of Indigenous women and girls by male police officers.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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Recommendation 139: Immediate independent investigation into the VPD practice of street checks with the goal of ending street checks.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
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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
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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
Access to justice
Recommendation 159: Fund an Indigenous legal clinic in the DTES that can support Indigenous women in all legal matters and provide regular legal education workshops.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Access to justice
Recommendation 161: Gladue is a legal requirement. All levels of government have an obligation to ensure that all Indigenous women in the DTES have timely, appropriate, and high-quality access to Gladue reports when involved in the criminal justice system.-
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