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Pages tagged "trpp"


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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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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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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Marpole Tenants Fight for Housing Justice


Read the original article by VTU member Lisa Descary on Springmag.ca

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Nanaimo St. Demoviction Raises Doubts About Tenant Protection Policy

Image: Tenants at 326 Nanaimo hanging banner outside that reads \

Tenants at 326 Nanaimo are facing demoviction and have joined VTU hoping to secure the rights and compensation afforded them by the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP). All tenants are vulnerable, low income, and have been paying significantly lower than CMHC average rent for the area.

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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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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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