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B.C.'s Additional Rent Increase Legislation: A backgrounder

Animated paper reading Notice of rent increase: Inflation + Renovations + Repairs + Surveilance; Total = [dollar signs]

The following article was researched and written by member Dianne Varga, an organizer and life-long tenant currently living on the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation.


 

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New Renoviction Laws - What We Know

Background:

It’s been three years since the provincial government’s Rental Housing Task Force delivered their report calling to “Stop Renovictions”. Since then, the government has been slow to make this happen.

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Why B.C. Eviction Data Is Out of Reach

 

As pandemic-era eviction bans have expired in jurisdictions all around the world, tenants who have been unable to pay rent during a time of crisis are getting evicted en-masse.

The B.C. government allowed evictions to resume back in September 2020, attached to a requirement that landlords must offer tenants a punishing 10-month repayment schedule for their rent debt. VTU members have demanded that the eviction ban remain in place for the duration of the pandemic - allowing people to lose their homes during this time is inhumane and dangerous for public health.

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Metro Vancouver Rents Up 20% Since BC NDP Formed Government

***For Immediate Release***

January 28, 2021

 

 

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How We Won at Broadway-Carolina

We beat the developer and put a fighting spirit back into the Union

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326 Nanaimo: What We Learned


Eight demovicted tenants at 326 Nanaimo St. fought to get the relocation they were promised by the City of Vancouver, with the organizing help of VTU, and support of the broader community. 

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City’s Re-Vamped Tenant “Protections” Are More Buyouts

 

A Perspective from a Renovicted Tenant Who Qualifies for TRPP

 

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Tenants Still Fighting Renovictions as Laws Slowly Shift

 

Five months after the disappointing Rental Housing Task Force report, the provincial government is still dragging its heels on action against renovictions and other tenant protections.

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Video: "Capital City" Author Samuel Stein Visits

On May 21, the VTU and The Mainlander co-hosted a panel discussion on gentrification and housing justice organizing with author Samuel Stein and local housing activists Sydney Ball, Nathan Crompton, and Nat Lowe.

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Province Slow To Roll Out Renoviction Protections

Five months on from the disappointing Rental Housing Task Force report, provincial government drags its heels on action against renovictions and other tenant protections

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Vancouver Tenants Union
Unit 216 -
268 Keefer St.
Vancouver, BC V6A 1X6

Unceded and occupied territory of the səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw
(Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
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