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ACORN sees the new rental housing policies that are being debated tonight by Burnaby council as a ‘good first step’, but say that more will need to be done to protect existing tenants from demovictions.
On Monday, May 27th Burnaby council passed a series of proposals aimed at stopping tenant displacement in the Metrotown area, which saw 800 units destroyed in the last few years and replaced by luxury condos.
ACORN members from across Canada would like thank Janet Tansley for her generous legacy gift to BC ACORN.
People working a job shouldn’t have to struggle to get by.
ACORN members, hoping for bold action to tackle the affordability crisis sweeping across many Canadian cities, were feeling underwhelmed as the federal government tabled Budget 2019, their last budget before the election in October.
Press release
It stopped short of recommending vacancy control, in which rental increases would be tied to the unit rather than the tenant
Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, who headed up the Rental Housing Task Force, called the 23 recommendations it produced "balanced."
Statement on the BC Rental Housing Task Force's decision re vacancy control