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Homeless & housing insecure people
Recommendation 22:
Support workers need to provide in-person support to make a strong connection with youth. For those who are unable to, they should provide frequent virtual check-ins.
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Recommendation 71:
Support with administrative and operational costs such as buildings and proper infrastructure. It is common in our sector to have “bunk-bed desks”, which don’t work during a pandemic.
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Recommendation 6:
Support the development of the Friendly Landlord Network to increase youth’s access to market housing. There should be more public education initiatives that engage landlords by creating accountability within community to support youth and fostering a sense of purpose by helping youth. The provincial government could provide tax incentives for individual homeowners to provide affordable rent and become a part of the Friendly Landlord Network or something similar.
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Recommendation 4:
Support foster parents with increased pay or respite to help youth remain in the home. Provide education to the youth and foster parents around social distancing.
COVID-19 & Youth Homelessness Special Report
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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 10:
Support an SRO resident organizer structure to educate, support and liaise between tenants and bylaw and Residential Tenancy Branch.
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Recommendation 2:
Strengthen bylaws and bylaw enforcement, to prevent losing more SROs due to inhabitability and disrepair.
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Recommendation 181:
Strengthen all the social determinants of Indigenous women’s health by ensuring access to and governance over land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, and safety.
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Recommendation 5:
- Envision an island where Indigenous people are whole, safe, strong, housed—transformed through love and care
- Identify sister communities
- Build and maintain strong partnerships, create MoU’s, protocols for practice
- Commit to action through short and long term planning
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Recommendation 16:
Stop requiring social housing and shelter/pension-rate housing to be self-sustaining. The concept of self-sufficiency and austerity around affordable housing needs to change otherwise will not be able to get people out of poverty.
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Recommendation 33:
Stop requiring social housing and shelter/pension-rate housing to be self-sustaining. The concept of self-sufficiency and austerity around affordable housing needs to change otherwise we will not be able to get people out of poverty.
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