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People experiencing homelessness
Recommendation 13:
Increased flexibility around the timeline when a youth needs to leave care. There should be no hard and fast deadlines or cut-off because a youth is nineteen. Youth are facing extraordinary challenges in transition planning, so need time to secure permanent housing.
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Recommendation 67:
Increased and sustained funding to manage additional expenditures of housing and supporting youth. Funding for wages should be adequate, so organizations are able to hire qualified and trained staff to offer meaningful support to youth.
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Recommendation 10:
Increase youth’s access to housing-focused workshops that assist them in learning about their rights and responsibilities. For example, the Rent Smart Workshop.
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Recommendation 51:
Increase the stock of modular units with wrap-around supported services to tackle homelessness province-wide.
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Recommendation 55:
Increase the province-wide stock of non-market rental, public and co-op housing, with 20,000 new units per year starting in 2021.
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Recommendation 54:
Increase the province-wide stock of all forms of social housing.
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Recommendation 3:
Increase the number of Seniors Subsidized Housing Units with a particular focus on rural B.C. where the overall supply of rental accommodation for seniors is most challenging.
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Recommendation 1:
Increase supply of appropriate and affordable housing for women and their children who have experienced violence.
- There is an immediate need for more housing to reduce the bottleneck within VAW services.
- The inability to secure long-term housing has perpetuated a cycle of violence against women and their children.
- The need for housing is province-wide and uniquely experienced based on location.
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Recommendation 15:
Increase investment in both capital and operating costs for shelter-rate housing, including through the Empty Homes tax, borrowing, reducing the annual police budget, and taxing homes worth over $5,000,000. Invest specifically in permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.
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Recommendation 11:
Increase housing stock for Indigenous people in both urban and rural communities, on and off reserve, including safe secure housing for women, women as single parent families and men.
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