said “to better support the housing and support needs of low-income seniors,” it has provided a $420,600 grant to fund the one-year pilot project by Whole Way House and its evaluation by SFU. The email said the money ends on March 31, 2023, and did not address th...
But he crossed out various sections he didn’t like, including a clause committing that the property remain housing for low-income tenants for at least one year after acceptance into the program. “He crossed out the sections, which means that I’m not eligible because you can’...
Another Vancouver-area tenant told of her landlord “being a jerk” and impeding her application by trying to impose his own conditions. She didn’t want to be named for fear of being evicted. “It’s impossible to sleep and we don’t have a cold place to go,” said the ...
The Strathcona neighborhood in Vancouver is particularly vulnerable to environmental injustice due to its close proximity to the Port of Vancouver, and a high proportion of Indigenous and low-income households. Furthermore, local sources of air pollutants (e.g., roadways) can contribute to small-sc...
B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau said her party is glad that government is paying attention to the SAFER program. “Low income seniors are struggling to get by, they are struggling to pay their housing costs, they are struggling to pay for their medication, for their food.” ...
Resisting Gentrification Amid Historic Preservation: Society Hill, Philadelphia, and the Fight for Low-Income Housing 来自 Project MUSE 喜欢 0 阅读量: 11 作者: Francesca Russello Ammon 摘要: In the 1970s, geographer Neil Smith used Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood to examine the process of...
“In an interview on Larry Kudlow’s show in August 2010, he (Frank) said “I hope by next year we’ll have abolished Fannie and Freddie … it was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn’t afford and couldn’t really handle once they had it....
For example, Vancouver’s climate plans (2020, 2021) repeatedly estimate there is at least a ~$100 M financing gap constraining implementation. Critical choices are sometimes kicked down the road e.g., London’s plan (updated in 2022) when the choice of whether to build decarbonized heat...
The Vancouver tax We explore how much tax would be generated in the considered areas by implementing the same 1% value tax as was enacted in Vancouver, Canada (City of Vancouver,2017). The tax will be compared to the local authorities' total income from domestic council tax. ...
We examine the incipient gentrification of a low-income corridor that follows the alignment of the SkyTrain rapid transit route through Vancouver and its suburbs. The corridor contains concentrations of aging, private, low-rise apartments built through welfare state programs 40-50 years ago that have...