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Economic inequality
Recommendation 4:
Governments resist a retreat into a conservative, austerity approach where equity and social justice are seen as distinct from a sustained and meaningful economic recovery. Equity and social justice must not come second to economic recovery.
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Governments at all levels should ensure their direct and contract employees are paid a living wage that allows them to meet their basic needs, properly support their children and avoid chronic financial stress.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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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 59:
Fully restore and fund poverty law legal aid in BC to address areas such as income security, employment, housing, and debt.
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Recommendation 22:
From our findings, there is also a desire from business operators for further “clean-up of public spaces with local business”. Current actions are not satisfactory based on our interview findings. This ongoing challenge can be attributed to larger systemic issues. We stress that ‘clean-up’ does not mean increasing police presence in the neighbourhood.
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Recommendation 6:
Formally recognize the National Occupancy Standards as merely guidelines and create new standards to guide occupancy rates in social housing and the private rental market.
- The NOS are not an accurate measure of housing stock suitability throughout Canada and they do not prevent overcrowding in their current form.
- The policy is being misused as guidelines for household composition and suitability.
- The NOS are a barrier for women with children seeking housing and are centred on the western ideal of the nuclear family.
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Recommendation 6:
Focus and prioritize the creation of green, unionized jobs in multiple sectors including health, education, child care, transit, and the building industry.
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Recommendation 4:
Finally, it is important to establish ongoing systems for monitoring mental health needs and outcomes for all children — to accurately depict the needs over time and to inform the evaluation of initiatives designed to meet these needs. Such efforts should focus first on problems that are expected to increase in the short term including anxiety, depression, behaviour problems and posttraumatic stress — in addition to tracking progress at addressing underlying issues such as socioeconomic disparities. Monitoring could take the form of pragmatic yet robust population-based short surveys conducted in representative samples of children. Our review also suggests that many children who experience mental health problems after disasters eventually recover. So tracking outcomes is also a way of measuring success.
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Recommendation 1:
Expropriate the Balmoral and Regent hotels, and prosecute the owners to the fullest extent under the law, for outstanding bylaw infractions in any of their properties.
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Recommendation 17:
Establish stand-alone pay equity and pay transparency legislation.
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Recommendation 14:
Establish special economic zones for Chinatown and the DTES to recognize the unique cultural and social assets of these neighbourhoods.
- Provide appropriate support services to traditional businesses.
- Incentivize cooperation with culturally specific infrastructure.
- Legitimize aspects of informal and survival economies.
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