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Tenancy rights
Recommendation 10:
Support an SRO resident organizer structure to educate, support and liaise between tenants and bylaw and Residential Tenancy Branch.
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Recommendation 2:
Strengthen bylaws and bylaw enforcement, to prevent losing more SROs due to inhabitability and disrepair.
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Recommendation 16:
Stop requiring social housing and shelter/pension-rate housing to be self-sustaining. The concept of self-sufficiency and austerity around affordable housing needs to change otherwise will not be able to get people out of poverty.
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Recommendation 33:
Stop requiring social housing and shelter/pension-rate housing to be self-sustaining. The concept of self-sufficiency and austerity around affordable housing needs to change otherwise we will not be able to get people out of poverty.
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Recommendation 109:
Stop market housing development in the DTES to preserve land for social housing. Once adequate social housing is built, abide by the City of Vancouver’s 1:1 rate of change principle.
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Recommendation 9:
Stop market housing development in the DTES to keep property values low and preserved for social housing until SRO hotels have been replaced with safe, secure, self-contained, resident-controlled, and low income social housing and until no one needs to sleep on the streets or in shelters.
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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 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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