The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s “Blueprint for Justice” released in 2020 describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities and revealed the depth and breadth of the durable policy and investments needed to truly reduce poverty and inequality in B.C. It describes the concrete actions needed to ensure nobody is left behind during the pandemic and beyond it, centering its recommendations on four principles: economic security, universal basic services, equity and climate justice. The full blueprint can be found here.
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Higher education
Recommendation 43: Address the rise of precarious work in higher education.-
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Child care
Recommendation 44: We endorse the $10-a-day Child Care Plan and recommend government cease income-testing and continue to build and support our emergent $10-a-day plan for B.C.-
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 46: Transfer the Child Care Branch from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the Ministry of Education.-
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Child care
Recommendation 47: Increase the universal Fee Reduction Initiative with a cap on fees and expand the number of $10-a-day prototype sites.-
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Child care
Recommendation 48: Establish a child care capital budget and further work with communities to plan, fund, and build new publicly owned child care facilities. This should begin with the purchase of bulk modular child care buildings to be located on public land across the province.-
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Housing
Recommendation 51: Increase the stock of modular units with wrap-around supported services to tackle homelessness province-wide.-
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Housing
Recommendation 52: Build all social and affordable housing according to principles of universal design.-
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Housing
Recommendation 53: Address the need for affordable housing in Metro Vancouver and build a minimum of 10,000 new units of non-market rentals, public housing, and co-op housing per year, starting in 2021.-
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Housing
Recommendation 54: Increase the province-wide stock of all forms of social housing.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 57: Legislate BC’s Permanent Residents’ right to vote in municipal elections in BC.-
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