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Living in urban communities
Recommendation 13:
Change the City’s definition of social housing so that low income people are not excluded from any social housing.
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Recommendation 13:
Change government definitions of social housing and affordable housing to mean rates that are affordable to people on social assistance, and rents that are income-geared not market-geared.
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Recommendation 4:
Buy or lease SRO hotels, especially near the location of the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the South end of the DTES to prevent them from gentrifying and pushing out low income residents.
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Recommendation 16:
At least one multipurpose Indigenous Women’s Centre in the DTES that is run by and for Indigenous women with long-term funding and wrap-around supports including healing support, communal kitchen, child care facility, elder accompaniment, artisan training and vending, and 24/7 educational, cultural, recreational, and empowerment-based programming to bring Indigenous women together collectively. This would also serve as a single point of access to connect to integrated services.
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Recommendation 3:
Appoint a business ambassador to support the relationship building process between traditional & non-traditional businesses, and to work directly with businesses on local procurement.
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Recommendation 184:
An Indigenous Health and Wellness Centre in the DTES and more Indigenous run health programs that use Indigenous methods and medicines to address physical, mental, sexual, emotional, and spiritual harms.
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Recommendation 18:
An Indigenous Health and Wellness Centre in the DTES and Indigenous-run health programs that use Indigenous methods to address physical, mental, sexual, emotional, and spiritual harms. Also fund more mobile healthcare vans and community-based clinics, street nurses, and healthcare providers in the DTES.
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Recommendation 8:
Amend the SRA bylaw to define SRO hotel “conversion” to mean raising rents above welfare and pension level shelter rates. Include zero-eviction conditions in all renovation and building permits.
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Recommendation 108:
Amend the City of Vancouver Single Room Accommodation bylaw to define SRO conversion to mean raising rents above income assistance-shelter rates. Include zero–eviction conditions in all renovation and building permits.
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Recommendation 17:
Aggressively lobby the provincial government to raise welfare to the Federal government’s Market Basket Measure (about $1,675 a month for a single person in 2017) and implement rent control so that any social assistance increase does not go directly to landlords.
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