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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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 61: Increase funding for family law legal aid, raise the income cut-off for eligibility, and significantly increase the number of hours available per case.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 62: Increase funding to the Human Rights Tribunal to stop extensive delays and restore service levels.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 63: Ensure Internet access, access to technology, and in-person support to those accessing the legal system online.-
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Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 64: Apply a gender-based analysis lens (GBA+) to all legal aid funding in BC.-
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 65: Free-fare public transit.- Step: Implement free transit for all youth 0-18 in every transit system in B.C.
- Step: Implement a sliding scale fare system based on income in every transit system in B.C.
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 66: Cease ticketing minors for fare evasion in all transit systems in BC.-
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Transportation
Recommendation 67: Implement community service as a do-no-harm alternative to fare evasion fines for low-income adults in every transit system in B.C.-
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 68: Apply an equity lens to all provincial, regional, and municipal transportation planning to ensure all forms of transportation infrastructure are affordable, accessible, and safe for at-risk and low-income community members.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 69: Achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1: Zero Poverty, 1.1. by eradicating extreme poverty in all its forms by 2030 and ensuring all those who are homeless have homes by 2030 in B.C.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 70: Address the depth of poverty in B.C and ensure all those below the poverty line achieve incomes 30% above the Market Basket Measure by 2026.-
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