Victoria Tenant Action Group (VTAG) is a grassroots organization for housing justice, resisting real estate capital on Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ lands
Victoria, British Columbia
Joined August 2018
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Join us Wednesday, April 13 @ 6:30pm via Zoom for VTAG’s Tenant Reading and Discussion Group looks at Sam Stein’s book Capital City and the role of urban planning in gentrification and the exploding costs of housing. Article and zoom link here:
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The Victoria Tenant Action Group (VTAG) would like to invite you to our third Annual General Meeting on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2021 at 7:00 PM PST via Zoom. Member registration and Agenda here: mailchi.mp/98a5e4636114/join…
VTAG is tabling in Fernwood Square this Sunday, November 7 from 1pm - 3pm (weather depending). Come by and say hi! We'll have flyers, membership forms, and will collect your thoughts about the challenges facing tenants as part of a collaborative project. See you this Sunday!
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Pivot's latest blog: @nicolemluongo discusses pitfalls of institutionalization as housing "An emerging proposal, of replacing SROs with “complex care facilities” for the “hard to house,” is new, and its implications are alarming." Read the blog: pivotlegal.org/power_control… @JenStDen
We are disappointed Victoria Council has delayed working on its rental licensing bylaw. The "wait and see" approach is a needless delay and the vote to not study gaps in provincial legislation because staff do not have sufficient resources to carry out the task is appalling.
Council's unwillingness to give greater priority to this subject by voting down @JeremyLoveday's motion to study gaps in the RTA legislation demonstrates that is not taking as seriously as possible what is a top priority for Victoria residents.
Here is a copy of the letter VTAG sent to Council regarding this issue:
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Solidarity with all @bcgeu members just smeared by Mayor Helps as hypocrites for writing to Victoria Council and having their concerns dismissed because their pension fund has real estate investments. What an astonishing and unseemly attack on public engagement.
This week, Council is considering abandoning its work on an anti-renoviction bylaw and a landlord licensing bylaw.
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We have a few points about the situation below, but if you’re short on time please just email Council now at [email protected] and tell them these protections are important to you as a renter.
More information on landlord licensing, why Council is considering abandoning the bylaw, and why VTAG thinks that’s a mistake at the link.
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Homelessness Action Week is screening the documentary Us & Them tomorrow evening @7pm. Register at the link to take part.
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We looked for 1 of our participants in the community today to provide them with their #SafeSupply. They tested positive for #COVID19 & have no fixed address. We don't know where to find them because there is nowhere for folks to isolate if they are homeless. #BCPoli
#DualPandemic
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So I guess this means those living in temporary housing facilities have full rights under the Residential Tenancy Act right? RIGHT? @aimollison @TAGVictoriaBC
I asked why VIHA hasn't declare outbreaks at temporary housing facilities, while they do at LTCs:
Dr Dee Hoyano said temp housing facilities are people's homes and it would be an invasion of privacy to declare outbreaks there, like it would be at apartment buildings. #yyj
Capitalism lives and dies by its ability to create new markets. Its apologists call this innovation. The rest of us know it for its violent acts of alienation and expropriation.
What does this so-called "democratization" of property owning mean for a politics of decolonization? On Wednesday, July 7 TRADS will discuss a brief Bloomberg article on this proposal and consider what it means for the local fight for housing justice.
