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Housing and homelessness
Recommendation 4:
Provide funding to storage facilities in an easily-accessible area.
- Any confiscated belongings must be stored at a facility located within the Downtown Eastside.
- Storage facilities must be secure, easily accessible, of an adequate size, and informed by best practices and cultural safety for people who rely on public space.
- Retrieval processes must respect the limited access unhoused people have to identifying documentation.
- Storage facilities must provide long-term, low-barrier storage space (i.e. 3-6 months).
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Recommendation 4:
Provide funding to community organizations to support youth in finding rentals and developing life-skills to sustain housing. Youth need support in communicating with landlords to prevent conflict by addressing issues before they arise such as not being able to afford rent one month.
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Recommendation 9:
Provide funding for case managers and peer navigation staff in community organizations that serve people with mental health and substance use-related disabilities and complex issues such as homelessness to help them gain access to the system. Trained people with lived or living experience should fill these roles wherever possible to ensure low barrier, empathetic and responsive services.
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Recommendation 1:
Provide comprehensive advocacy and support for individuals being released from the hospital towards transition to shelter/housing.
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Recommendation 9:
Provide additional support staff that can help youth sustain housing and wellness during these challenging times.
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 28:
Provide a safe and affordable home for every Indigenous woman on and off reserve. This housing must be with long-term security of tenure, independent of matrimonial or common-law status, and self-contained units of at least 400 square feet with bathrooms and kitchens. Housing must also consider specific needs such as mobility access, space for children and extended families, and ceremonial practices. Highest priority for social housing should be given to Indigenous women fleeing violence and Indigenous mothers at risk of child apprehension.
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Recommendation 100:
Open more transition homes and low-barrier shelters that are for Indigenous women only.
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Recommendation 9:
Non-profit and non-governmental workers should not just receive the mandate to conduct Street Sweeps, nor should civilians be “deputized” to do this work. Any alternative to Street Sweeps should be peer-led, specifically led by the community organizers who are currently experiencing Sweeps. These folks live, and survive, the realities of Street Sweeps and are best-situated to discern appropriate and long-term solutions.
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Recommendation 32:
Move from “supportive housing” models to tenant- and peer-controlled housing and housing that responds to resident-identified mental health needs.
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Recommendation 7:
- Pilot Island Wide ‘healing communities’
- Conduct research; gather data
- Expand Managed Alcohol Residence programming
- Provide culturally supportive housing
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