189 search results for
Poverty
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
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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 26:
Reviewing the processes that are currently in place for reporting “welfare fraud” to provide greater accountability and ensure that people receiving income assistance are not denied survival income without due process.
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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 154:
Repeal the mandatory imposition of the victim fine surcharge and give judges the discretion to waive the fine for those unable to pay it.
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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 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 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 36:
Recognize the right to housing at the provincial government level and declare BC a “rights-based” province.
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