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Vancouver Council Expands Tenant Relocation Policy - But Not Much Else

Following Cllr Jean Swanson’s motion to protect tenants from renovictions and aggressive buyouts - which VTU members rallied council to pass last December - city staff completed their final report back and recommendations...

VTU members in the viewing gallery at City Hall on June 11th

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Renters Demand a Green New Deal

On May 25, 2019 the VTU hosted a town hall discussion focused on the intersection of tenant struggles and the Pact for a Green New Deal: an ambitious policy platform to retool and restructure the economy to face the crisis of climate change within the next decade and democratize society in the process.
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Demoviction: Hastings-Sunrise Seniors Fighting to Stay

A Call for Support of Alice Saunders Residents

Alice Saunders House is home to 64 low income seniors and managed by non-profit Brightside Community Homes Foundation. Brightside has decided to invest a $18.1 million grant from the BC government in demolishing Alice Saunders Building and replacing it with a mixed market and non-market building. 

A photo of the Brightside building sign of Alice Saunders 2924 Venables Street on a sunny day. A poster written in bold marker says 100 new units will destroy our community forever

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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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West End Chapter Launch

Photo of small poster attached to a sign board advertising the West End Chapter Meeting

On March 24th 2019, the inaugural meeting of the VTU West End Chapter took place at Gordon Neighbourhood House...

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Join VTU in Supporting the Motion to Re-Conceptualize City's Rental 100 Program

Vancouver Cllr. Jean Swanson is bringing a motion to City Council next Wednesday, April 3 to stop giving subsidies (in the form of Development Cost Levy (DCL) waivers) for the construction of luxury, unaffordable rentals incorrectly named "affordable for-profit market rentals".

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Hastings Sunrise Chapter - First Meeting

One Tuesday Jan 29th, Hastings Sunrise tenants met to initiate a VTU local chapter in this renter-heavy neighbourhood.

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*Partial* Victory to Ban Renovictions in Vancouver

On December 4th Vancouver city council voted unanimously in favor of an amended motion to ban renovictions.

It is a partial victory, but a victory nonetheless.

 

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