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In poverty
Recommendation 65:
End clawbacks of income and disability assistance including clawbacks of Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits and penalties for cohabitation.
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Recommendation 11:
Embrace a women-centred philosophy in hotels with policies and practices that ensure women’s access and safety in all spaces, especially for Indigenous women and women of colour.
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Recommendation 73:
Eliminate the prohibition on accessing Rental Assistance Program (RAP) and Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) housing subsidies for people on income and disability assistance.
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Recommendation 1:
Eliminate the enforcement of Street and Traffic By-Laws against people who rely on public space.
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Recommendation 63:
Eliminate barriers to accessing income and disability assistance by reducing unnecessary eligibility criteria and simplifying the application processes. This includes:
- Removing the two-year financial independence requirement for income assistance.
- Basing income assistance eligibility on current income only.
- Removing the penalty clawback for failure to work search requirements for income assistance.
- Removing the work search requirement for mothers with children over the age of three years old.
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Recommendation 6:
Drastically expand permanent parklets, green spaces, hygiene facilities, garbage disposal sites, and other public outdoor amenities such as covered cooking facilities, and cultural programming sites through the DTES, as these are essential public spaces.
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Recommendation 7:
Do not provide incentives to profit or non-profit SRO owners to upgrade their units unless rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.
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Recommendation 1:
Divest from policing and invest in community-based services, specifically non-police interventions that support people who are impacted by homelessness, toxic drug supply, mental health distress, and those working in informal/grey economies, such as sex work.
Joint Open Letter on Decriminalizing Poverty
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Battered Women’s Support Services, BC Association of People on Methadone, BC Civil Liberties Association, Black Lives Matter – Vancouver, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity, Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Hogan’s Alley Society, Metro Vancouver Consortium, Overdose Prevention Society, PACE Society, Pivot Legal Society, Restoring Collective, Sanctuary Health, SWAN Vancouver, Tenant Overdose Response Organizers, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, WePress, WISH Drop-In Centre Society
Battered Women’s Support Services, BC Association of People on Methadone, BC Civil Liberties Association, Black Lives Matter – Vancouver, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity, Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Hogan’s Alley Society, Metro Vancouver Consortium, Overdose Prevention Society, PACE Society, Pivot Legal Society, Restoring Collective, Sanctuary Health, SWAN Vancouver, Tenant Overdose Response Organizers, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, WePress, WISH Drop-In Centre Society
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2021
2021
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Recommendation 3:
Develop localized renewable energy projects (wind, solar, tidal), working with communities and Indigenous Nations as partners, to help communities avoid energy poverty and reduce emissions.
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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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