#2 - 630B Carnarvon St., New Westminster BC V3M 1E5
***Please enter through the BACK entrance - off Mackenzie St.***
Phone: 604-522-8706
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ACORN members from across Canada would like thank Janet Tansley for her generous legacy gift to BC ACORN.
ACORN members from across the country will come together to listen to exciting guest speakers, including labour leaders, community allies, politicians and more; meet other ACORN members and leaders from across the country; attend workshops on how to build power for change; and learn the skills and tools needed to develop grassroots campaigns.
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
Members of ACORN present their award in Anthem's Vancouver headquarters