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Pages tagged "vancouver"


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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Acting Fast under Threat of Sahota Evictions

Image: Sahota buildings on Wall St.

VTU organizers were alerted in late August that as many as 20 tenants in two buildings on Wall St. had received eviction notices

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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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All-Spanish Language Info Session for Community in Vancouver: More to Come

On April 9: VTU Steering Committee member Rocco Trigueros organized a Spanish-speaking tenants’ rights session for the community in Vancouver. There are about 37,000 people in Vancouver with Spanish as their first language. 

     The shot includes about 8 people who sit with their backs to the camera facing a panel of 4 VTU presenters           

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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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*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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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.
Email: [email protected]

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