42 search results for
Carnegie Community Action Project
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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Recommendation 36:
Recognize the right to housing at the provincial government level and declare BC a “rights-based” province.
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Recommendation 18:
Recognize the right to housing at the local government level and making it a “rights-based city” like the City of Montreal.
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Recommendation 39:
Rather than just stating in the National Housing Strategy a goal of reducing chronic homelessness by 50% over the next decade, provide funds to build enough social housing to end homelessness now.
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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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Recommendation 28:
Provide funds to Chinese societies in the Downtown Eastside that have housing units and are financially unable to upgrade their building to remain habitable on the condition that the rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.
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Recommendation 38:
Provide funds to Chinese societies in the Downtown Eastside that have housing units and are financially unable to upgrade their building to remain habitable on the condition that the rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.
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