235 search results for
Housing and homelessness
Recommendation 11:
Increase access to shelters and provide youth with a safe place to be all night, especially if a second wave of COVID-19 hits. Youth recommend integrating places to isolate within youth shelters.
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Recommendation 34:
Increase access to RTB services and provide proactive, door-to-door education and information about renters’ rights and early warning signs of renovictions. Provide support for a penalty-free “rent strike” or withholding rents for units that have poor maintenance, and landlords not doing anything to improve it. Have a real Renters’ Taskforce, from the point of view of renters, not landlords.
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Recommendation 5:
Include in the health authorities’ service contracts with assisted living residences the requirement that they collaborate with the joint occupational health and safety committee at their site to develop comprehensive processes for monitoring injury rates, identifying risk factors and preventing and reducing injuries rates over time.
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Recommendation 25:
In the interim, reducing criminalization and stigmatization of community members would alleviate further social divides. Instead, we recommend an approach that allows them to thrive that takes an inclusive approach to housing, employment, social security, and access (services, food, other), which would require cooperative action by all levels of government and stakeholders.
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Recommendation 34:
In its first year in operation, the BC Human Rights Commission should prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations, including, but not limited to:
- public space governance; income assistance and disability policy;
- housing policy and residential tenancy law;
- child welfare law and policy;
- policing law and policy;
- health policy related to mental health and substance use; and
- privacy law as it relates to people who live in public space and people who are criminalized as a result of substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Ageism ,
- Classism ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Substance use ,
- Tenancy rights
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Recommendation 9:
In addition, the Seniors Advocate would request a report from each health authority outlining:
- How they are using the funding provided by the Ministry of Health (i.e., $26 million over three years) to increase staffing and care coordination for assisted living residents and to identify the gaps and challenges with the implementation of Bill 16; and
- The current pressure on the health authority for acute home support and home health resources from the assisted living sector, and the potential increased pressure on these resources moving forward.
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Recommendation 49:
Implement vacancy control and tie rent to the unit.
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Recommendation 9:
Implement policies to reduce speculation & dampen property value inflation or other measures to improve tenureship of lease.
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Recommendation 167:
Implement existing recommendations in Justice Reform for British Columbia by Community Legal Assistance Society, Pivot Legal Society, West Coast LEAF, and B.C. Civil Liberties Association.
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- Access to justice ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- International human rights ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Public services
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Recommendation 128:
Implement existing recommendations by the Fostering Change Initiative and First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition. In particular:
- Remove eligibility restrictions and increase financial and other supports for youth and young people on Youth Agreements and Agreements with Young Adults. Agreements with Young Adults should be increased to at least $1400 per month with no clawbacks.
- Remove the maximum number of months during which young people are eligible to remain on Agreements with Young Adults.
- Extend the age till 25 years old for how long MCFD should support young people as they transition into adulthood and continue to receive housing, food, transit, cultural, and other financial supports.
- Remove the age limit to be eligible for free postsecondary tuition and eliminate the requirement of months in care to be eligible for free postsecondary tuition.
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- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Public services
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