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Income insecurity and benefits
Recommendation 72:
Remove the age cap and the two-year eligibility requirement for income assistance for the Tuition Waiver Program for youth aging out of care.
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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 40:
Reduce tuition fees by 50% and increase the availability of non-repayable post-secondary bursaries and grants for low-income students.
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Recommendation 5:
Reduce social inequities women face that make them at risk for experiencing homelessness by creating a specific government support program for women experiencing violence.
- The provision of CERB during the COVID-19 pandemic has broadened the possibilities of governmental economic support to a targeted population.
- As a result of the pandemic, there is currently a policy window for initiatives to support those who experience violence.
- There is a call for increased financial support to those who experience violence from the Final Report of the British Columbia Expert Panel on Basic Income (Green et al., 2020).
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Recommendation 134:
Redirect growing municipal, provincial, and federal police and prison budgets towards solutions that increase safety for Indigenous women such as more housing, child care, income, healthcare, mental health and addictions services, and healing supports.
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Recommendation 2:
Redesign the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program to reflect the current reality of the B.C. rental market and ensure yearly rent increases are recognized.
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Recommendation 77:
Rectify Indigenous women’s exclusion from the economy by:
- Developing equitable and inclusive hiring policy and standards.
- Creating a diversity of low-barrier jobs in the DTES with priority hiring and support for Indigenous women of the community.
- Creating peer-based employment programs including navigation positions throughout the housing, mental health, substance use, and income support systems.
- Ensuring Indigenous women peer workers are paid a living wage, have full benefits, and have the right to unionization.
- Creating jobs that value and compensate skills such as weaving, beading, drum making, food harvesting, and traditional healing, and support the creation of an Indigenous women’s cooperative in the DTES.
- Improving employment supports and workplace accommodations for Indigenous women who are single parents and/or in recovery to ensure that they are not setup to fail in their employment due to systemic barriers.
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- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Public services ,
- Substance use ,
- Workers’ rights
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Recommendation 19:
Raise welfare to the Federal government’s Market Basket Measure (about $1,665 a month for a single person in 2016).
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Recommendation 22:
Raise minimum wage to at least $15 an hour with regular increases after that up to a Living Wage (about $19.50/hour in Vancouver).
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Recommendation 20:
Raise disability to at least $300 more than welfare.
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