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Pages tagged "municipal policy"


Statement on Police-Led Decampment of Hastings Tent City

The Vancouver Tenants Union calls upon the City of Vancouver for an immediate moratorium on evictions of the Hastings Tent City and all encampments throughout the city. 

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A Brief History of Little Mountain: Lessons for the Housing Struggle

 Little Mountain Social Housing - before and after

The following piece was written by VTU member Nathan Crompton.

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Will “more social housing everywhere” mean more destruction of our affordable homes?

A map of the city of Vancouver with an overlay of RM-4, RM-4N andRM-3A zoned districts. These include Cedar Cove, Grandview Woodlands, Marpole, Mount Pleasant and Kitsilano. The map also show locations of non-market housing in those zones. A legend at the bottom states there are 62 Non-profit owned sites and 45 city/government owned sites in these areas

On December 7th, 2022 recently re-elected OneCity councillor Christine Boyle celebrated the unanimous passage of her motion “Reducing Barriers and Deepening Affordability for Non-Profit, Co-op and Social Housing in Every Neighbourhood”. It was her second time bringing the motion to council, this time with lively support from non-profit housing developers, the Vancouver & District Labour Council and Women Transforming Cities.

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Where did four years fighting at city hall get us?

They say you can’t fight city hall - but in the wake of the 2018 municipal elections, our newly formed tenants union took an aggressive tack to do just that - to bring tenant voices and tenant-centred policies into Vancouver’s city hall and to test a new politically fractured council.

 

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Solidarity with the "Our Streets" Statement on the Hastings Street Tent City Fire Order.

July 29, 2022 

The Vancouver Tenants Union stands in solidarity with the Our Streets Statement on the Hastings Street Tent City Fire Order. The VTU calls on the City of Vancouver to immediately end the order to decamp unhoused residents in the Downtown Eastside.  

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Balfour Block Tenants Facing Demoviction Demand Stronger Protections

A group of Balfour Block tenants and VTU members inside City Hall holding a banner that reads: \

July 21, 2022

VANCOUVER, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES

Over 70 tenants are facing demoviction on 906-982 W 18th Ave and 907-969 W 19th Ave (Balfour Block) have organized and submitted a collective letter to the City of Vancouver in order to give them a fighting chance to stay in their neighborhood. The Balfour Tenants Collective’s demands include:

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“Renters Plan” to Mark the Launch of Tenant Resistance Movement Against Broadway Plan’s Transit-Oriented Displacement

***For Immediate Release***

May 16, 2022

VANCOUVER, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES

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Vancouver Tenants Union
Unit 216 -
268 Keefer St.
Vancouver, BC V6A 1X5

Unceded and occupied territory of the səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw
(Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Email: [email protected]

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