235 search results for
Housing and homelessness
Recommendation 51:
Schooling should be integrated into housing programs by creating a COVID friendly space.
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Recommendation 18:
Scale up funding to build thousands of new social and affordable rental housing units and maintain existing affordable housing stock to reduce the number of families in core housing need and to eliminate homelessness. Tie rent control to the unit to remove the incentive for evictions of current tenants to raise the rent for new tenants.
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 2:
Safety should be the top priority considered by all social and community housing providers when evaluating the eligibility of those looking for housing, instead of the focus on the number of bedrooms. This can be accomplished through the creation of new operational policies that take these critical considerations into account.
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Recommendation 12:
Revisit Downtown Eastside zoning regulations to ensure that they require new developments to include more social housing that low income people can afford.
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Recommendation 40:
Return Housing First as the key strategy of the National Homelessness Strategy and implement the Indigenous Definition of Homelessness
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Recommendation 6:
Restore minimum unit size to 320 sq. ft. so people have a home that feels permanent.
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Recommendation 4:
Research the state of youth homelessness in British Columbia and promising practices to prevent and reduce its occurrence.
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Recommendation 4:
Relevant public bodies should continue to build additional affordable housing that offers a flexible and progressive range of supports, specifically designed for people with mental health or substance userelated disabilities. For example, a person should have the option to move from a group home with onsite staff to an apartment managed by a local mental health non-profit as their health and if they chose to do so.
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Recommendation 23:
Reform the Residential Tenancy Act to provide effective rent control by the rental unit rather than the tenant. This will stop giving landlords an incentive to evict low income people and end renovictions. The Province should also implement a rent freeze and end the annual allowable rent increase (2.5% in 2019).
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Recommendation 4:
Reduce social inequities women face that make them at risk for experiencing homelessness by reducing the gender wage gap.
- Long-term economic security for women will help prevent women experiencing homelessness and allow for women to have greater choice in their living circumstances.
- Large scale systemic barriers have to be addressed in order for equitable access to housing to exist.
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