In January 2019, hua foundation published “Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report. The report addresses social cohesion in the neighbourhood’s food retail landscape and demonstrates a growing divide within what has historically been a tight-knit community. It makes several recommendations to address this concern, including advocating for the development of a city-wide equity framework to better understand the needs of its existing and growing diverse populations and to guide the application of existing policies and strategies.
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REFINEMENT AND REFRESH OF EXISTING POLICIES
Chinatown Economic Revitalization Plan and Chinatown Neighbourhood Plan
Recommendation 23: Include a Community Economic Development strategy that is based entirely from a culturally and community specific lens. This recommendation includes legitimizing and uplifting the survival economy, informal economy, and other systems that have been pushed to the margins, with measures to increase opportunities for more equitable and inclusive employment.-
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REFINEMENT AND REFRESH OF EXISTING POLICIES
Systemic neighbourhood environmental issues
Recommendation 25: In the interim, reducing criminalization and stigmatization of community members would alleviate further social divides. Instead, we recommend an approach that allows them to thrive that takes an inclusive approach to housing, employment, social security, and access (services, food, other), which would require cooperative action by all levels of government and stakeholders.-
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