Rent Control: A community Forum

Is Vancouver too expensive for you or your family?
What can the city do to keep rents down and protect tenants?
What can renters do to organize themselves?
This is a forum to discuss these issues.

Speakers:

JACKIE WONG is a Vancouver based journalist who focuses on affordable housing, renters, and seniors issues.

DJ LARKIN works at the PIVOT Legal Society, as their Housing and Gender campaigns lawyer.

GAIL HARMER is a seniors advocate in the West End

SEAN ANTRIM is the Executive Director of the Coalition of Progressive Electors

Background:
Vancouver is the most unaffordable city in North America. In the 1970s, tenants fought and won significant gains such as rent control, as well as the requirement that landlords provide a reason for evictions. But years of governments influenced by landlords and big businesses have meant that many of the gains made in the past have been seriously weakened. Rents in Vancouver are now unaffordable for many, and high rents are forcing many to leave their homes or even the city.

In our work to develop bold, working solutions to the housing crisis, COPE is building a plan to control rents. COPE is also working on a plan to strengthen existing city by-laws to stop displacement and ensure that renters in Vancouver have the affordability and secure tenure they need to live comfortably in the city
Cost: By donation