If passed, the new bill would ensure rent can only be increased at the rate of inflation, and landlords would have to apply to the Residential Tenancy Branch before they can issue an eviction notice relating to renovations.
The B.C. government has proposed a law that would extend the rent freeze to the end of 2021, cap future rent increases to inflation and prevent illegal renovictions.
A Minnesota regional planning agency is turning to the power of the sun to help improve a desperately tight housing market for low-income renters in the Twin Cities.
Global calls for defunding the police have made their way to New Westminster.
At a budget workshop on Monday afternoon, council considered draft capital and operating budgets, which proposed a 4.9% property tax increase in 2021. But instead of directing the finance department to prepare a financial plan that incorporated that increase, council voted four to three in support of Coun. Nadine Nakagawa’s motion to send the police budget back to the police board and ask it to submit a budget with a 0% increase for 2021.
The buildings were neglected for years. The city had been trying to expropriate them, and records show it’s now the owner.
The City of Vancouver now owns the Regent and Balmoral hotels, Downtown Eastside buildings the city had been trying to expropriate after years of neglect and decay, The Tyee has learned.
Land title records list the city as the current owner of 159 E. Hastings — the Balmoral — and 160 E. Hastings — the Regent.
Grocery clerk Rechev Browne is a pandemic hero, an essential worker who can’t afford to live in the city he serves.
He earns about $44,000 a year at an Etobicoke store.
Last December, Browne, 34, decided he could no longer afford to pay $1,150 a month to share a house with three other people. So he has moved back in with his mom in a two-bedroom apartment near Keele St. and Wilson Ave.
![Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Montgomery, Alabama, 1965. [Photo: Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images]](https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/p-1-90602957-guaranteed-income-is-having-a-moment-the-last-time-it-did-was-the-1960s.jpg?itok=FGpAc4ms)
