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Housing and homelessness
Recommendation 3:
Implement directives related to the confiscation of belongings from people who rely on public space, which recognize that this practice has continued potential for harmful and discriminatory impacts.
- In the rare event that belongings must be confiscated, directives should clearly detail how City staff are to protect the rights and dignity of those who are impacted, including rights to procedural fairness.
- City staff must provide at least 24 hours of advance notice prior to seizure.
- If someone’s belongings are justifiably confiscated, City staff must provide a receipt that details what was taken, and clear instructions on how to retrieve personal belongings.
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Recommendation 21:
Immediately increase the shelter component of social assistance to at least $525 a month.
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Recommendation 31:
Immediately build another 6,000 units of modular housing across BC and make a plan to transition those living in modular housing into permanent social housing.
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Recommendation 95:
Immediately build 10,000 affordable social housing units per year in B.C., with an additional 1000 units each year. These units must be self-contained units of at least 400 square feet with bathrooms and kitchens.
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Recommendation 28:
Immediately begin the process of collecting baseline data on the outcomes of poverty (such as homelessness) in order to include concrete realistic goals and milestones in the poverty reduction plan.
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Recommendation 9:
Identify, implement and sustain effective services and promising practices related to the prevention and ending of youth homelessness:
- Prevention and early intervention;
- Housing;
- and Supports and services.
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Recommendation 98:
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 92:
Funding initiatives to end homelessness must be more inclusive of Indigenous women. Implement the existing recommendations of Homes 4 Women and Women’s Shelters Canada on making homeless initiatives and funding structures more gender-equal.
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Recommendation 101:
Fund more Indigenous housing outreach workers and advocates.
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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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