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Recommendation 3:
Develop a Contingency Plan for every youth in care that includes alternative housing options and supports, including considerations and plans based on the youth’s culture.
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 5:
Designate enough land for 6,000 units of social housing in the Downtown Eastside to show senior levels of government that the City is serious about solving the housing crisis.
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Recommendation 2:
Defund City Engineering & Police Budgets and redirect funds currently allocated to Street Sweeps, in order to redistribute resources and funds for cleaning to local organizations and individuals who reside in affected areas.
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Recommendation 21:
Create universal access to post-secondary education by eliminating tuition fees.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
Group/author:
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 27:
Create a diversity of low-barrier, peer-based jobs in the DTES with priority hiring and support for Indigenous women of the community. Ensure that peer workers are paid a living wage, have full benefits, and the right to unionization. Recognize the contribution of volunteers and create appropriate and accredited volunteer programs to transfer skills and enable access to employment.
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Recommendation 2:
Continue with annual increases to the carbon tax while ensuring this taxation incorporates low income transfers that sufficiently offset any negative impacts to low income households or individuals (such as an expansion of the low-income carbon tax credit).
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Recommendation 72:
Continue the $300 increase to income and disability assistance rates and further raise the rates to the Market Basket Measure.
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Recommendation 7:
Continue steps to simplify and improve the income and disability application processes with the Ministry’s own disability-related “daily living activities” (e.g., decision-making or communicating effectively with others, etc.) in mind. In particular, the application should only collect information that is necessary and relevant; avoid asking for the same information twice; and not focus solely on deficits, but allow applicants to identify positive qualities, abilities or activities such as volunteering without impacting eligibility.
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Recommendation 27:
Conduct an analysis and identify best practices in poverty prevention and reduction programs for the purpose of enhancing and expanding them to be delivered in other parts of the province. Friendship Centres are the organization of choice for Indigenous people seeking supports and are uniquely positioned to play a key role in addressing the issue with more support. Greater consistency in the types of programming/services offered by Friendship Centres will ensure that clients can access the same services regardless of where they live.
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Recommendation 90:
Comprehensive federal, provincial, and municipal Indigenous Housing policy framework to specifically address Indigenous homelessness.
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