The Tyee: Big Changes for Demoviction Central
Burnaby adopts surprising recommendations for growth, homelessness and protecting renters. We break down the biggest three.
BC ACORN started organizing in 2005, starting with our first chapter, Surrey. Since then we have built up six more chapters across the lower mainland (New Westminster, Burnaby, Tri-Cities, Whalley, Guilford, and Newton). Some of our biggest victories include: Canada’s first living wage policy in New Westminster; the introduction of a healthy homes bylaw in Surrey; regulation of payday lending; and many local victories against slumlords!
Despite losing our office in an explosion in 2013, BC ACORN is stronger than ever and continuing the fight for healthy homes, disability rights, and closing the digital divide!
Want to be part of the fight? Join ACORN!
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Burnaby adopts surprising recommendations for growth, homelessness and protecting renters. We break down the biggest three.
Proposed policy would guarantee temporary accommodation to renters displaced by renovictions and demovictions
BC ACORN members are celebrating the strongest protections offered to tenants in Canada
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 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.
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.
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