Smithers Interior News reported recently on an increase in users of the Broadway Place homeless shelter in Smithers. Although Smithers' efforts to provide housing for the homeless were praised by...
Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre has a new fact sheet available: “Can my landlord turn off my heat?”
View all of TRAC's factsheets here.
Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
From Pivot:
"“Whose problem is it?” It seems that is the eternal question in the debate about Canada’s housing crisis. The federal government maintains that housing is the purview of the provinces....
Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
In its fifth year, the large turnout for the annual DTES Women's Housing March shows that the movement pushing for better access to safe and affordable housing for women in the neighbourhood, is not...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Violence, Women, British Columbia
The City of Vancouver has struggled to force the owners of two Vancouver Single Room Occupancy hotels to clean up their properties and fix the multitude of reported problems. Recently the situation...
Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
The Tyee is running a series on housing issues in Vancouver. The fourth part of this series, by Jackie Wong, was published today and examines the Residential Tenancy Branch arbitration process....
Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
The City of Vancouver has taken its complaints about the landlords of two Downtown Eastside rooming houses to court. Staff and councillors referred to the owners as slum lords and described problems...
Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre has a extended their night shelter service, and anticipates BC Housing will soon be accepting tenders to run a 24-hour women's shelter in the Downtown Eastside.
The...
Homelessness, Housing, Women, British Columbia
In this video, an Income Assistance client in Victoria BC finds her rent increased. A hidden video camera records her struggling with a government worker over the resulting impact on her benefits.
Government Policy, Housing, Welfare, British Columbia
The no place like home website documents a complaint to the UN by the PIVOT Legal Society, Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition (IOCC) about the...
Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) is a non-partisan, charitable organization operating in BC since 1966. SPARC BC focuses on social justice issues and works together with...
Disability, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty Research, Welfare, British Columbia
Community Advocates for Little Mountain (CALM) are working to save Vancouver’s oldest social housing complex - 224 homes on 15 acres beside Queen Elizabeth Park - which is slated for redevelopment.
Housing, Organizing, British Columbia
David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty.
Homelessness, Housing, Legal Research, Poverty Research, British Columbia
The City Wide Housing Coalition is a coalition in Vancouver working to save and build low income housing.
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, British Columbia
(TRAC) is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization working on behalf of B.C.'s one million tenants. They came together in 1983 to protest a government plan to eliminate rent control and abolish the...
Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
BC 211 is British Columbia's directory of community, social and government services. Available online or by dialling 211, where staff are available 24/7 to assist those looking for services.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, British Columbia
This booklet is for home owners who can't make their mortgage payments on legal mortgages and will be going through foreclosure proceedings. This booklet is not intended for home owners who have a...
Debt and Consumer Law, Housing, Legal Assistance, British Columbia
City of Vancouver Social Development Department - Housing Policy is responsible for the City of Vancouver’s housing policy, programs and research. Their website contains information on non-market...
Housing, British Columbia
BC Housing is the website for the government funding agency which offers housing assistance to low- and moderate-income families, seniors, urban singles and people with special needs.
Housing, British Columbia
Vancouver's community services group housing centre department home page. The site contains information on rental housing in Vancouver, the tenants assistance program, and a map index page that shows...
Government Policy, Housing, Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia
