Victoria Tenant Action Group @TAGVictoriaBC
Victoria Tenant Action Group (VTAG) is a grassroots organization for housing justice, resisting real estate capital on Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ lands victoriatenants.com 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: mailchi.mp/16a1e311d917/g…
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/j…
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!
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
Disappointed to see Victoria City Council delay this important bylaw. Shout out to councillors @JeremyLoveday @sarahpottsvic and @deardubow for voting to protect affordable housing for renters facing renoviction. We’ll continue the fight for this over the next three months.
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.
Homelessness Action Week is screening the documentary Us & Them tomorrow evening @7pm. Register at the link to take part. eventbrite.ca/e/homelessness…
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
So I guess this means those living in temporary housing facilities have full rights under the Residential Tenancy Act right? RIGHT? @aimollison @TAGVictoriaBC
So I guess this means those living in temporary housing facilities have full rights under the Residential Tenancy Act right? RIGHT? @aimollison @TAGVictoriaBC
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Disappointed to see Victoria City Council delay this important bylaw. Shout out to councillors @JeremyLoveday @sarahpottsvic and @deardubow for voting to protect affordable housing for renters facing renoviction. We’ll continue the fight for this over the next three months.
@vee9zee @Katlambert67 @LaurenSemrau @BerniePauly @TAGVictoriaBC A major downfall of the RTA is that its individualized cases and rulings that apply only to the people involved in the case. There has been some successful organizing to get operators to change building policy but, of course, tenant organizers are targeted hard.
#SystemicViolence @bcgreencaucus @CapitalDailyVic @UVic_CISUR @AndreaWoo @TAGVictoriaBC @CHEK_News @JeremyLoveday @sarahpottsvic @brish_ti
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
I was also told by orgs like @VicCoolAid and @ourplacesociety that VIHA asked them not to share COVID case counts with residents and staff at shelters. Dr. Stanwick today: "I have no knowledge of such instruction. Each organization has its own policy" @CapitalDailyVic #yyj
The word "privacy" thrown around many times at this briefing as excuse for why residents at shelters aren't allowed to know how many cases are in their own building. Stanwick/Hoyano kept saying "this info is not for the public" in response to my q about why not tell residents
So I guess this means those living in temporary housing facilities have full rights under the Residential Tenancy Act right? RIGHT? @aimollison @TAGVictoriaBC
@VanIslandHealth 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
@sinclair_geoff @volc8o @TAGVictoriaBC I’m sorry , what ?
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Calls for complex care are gaining traction in BC w/ the rationale that there are some on the streets too "unwell" for regular housing who require an “involuntary” approach. Read our statement to find out why we are deeply disturbed by this trend. victoriatenants.com/complexcare
"Calls for complex care are gaining traction in BC with the rationale that there are some living on the streets that are just too “mentally ill” for regular housing who require an “involuntary” approach to care" | Vital statement from @TAGVictoriaBC thevolcano.org/2021/06/16/the…
@ourplacesociety @emma_goldwoman @TAGVictoriaBC our homes are the foundation of our wellness there is a hierarchy of needs medications have greatly improved for things like psychotic disorders all most people need is housing and quality, consistent health care not institutions and pathologizing
@ourplacesociety @TAGVictoriaBC It’s very irresponsible to advocate for complex involuntary care , and hold power in the discussion, then throw your hands up and say it’s up to the provincial government .
You can read @TAGVictoriaBC’s full statement about calls for ‘complex care’ as a solution to homelessness here:
Regardless of the trauma we have experienced in our past or the generational poverty that overwhelms us - everyone deserves to live with safety, dignity, meaningful community connections, with our material needs met. Read our statement here: victoriatenants.com/complexcare
@ourplacesociety @TAGVictoriaBC These issues are not separate. Would you be willing to take a meeting between our place and VTAG to speak about this , and have the opportunity to listen to voices with lived experiences of the harm caused by complex care ?
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Stop medicalizing housing. C Invest in community-driven housing & supports with health care allies (HCPs need to learn how to decenter themselves in these spaces)
Calls for complex care are gaining traction in BC w/ the rationale that there are some on the streets too "unwell" for regular housing who require an “involuntary” approach. Read our statement to find out why we are deeply disturbed by this trend. victoriatenants.com/complexcare
Of course the CEO of a shelter services contractor supports the involuntary assignment of ever greater numbers of vulnerable Victoria residents to his business’s facilities. And of course a media outlet deriving ad revenue from tourism and RE corporations will platform his views
This statement is in reference to recent op-eds including this one from Julian Daly, CEO of @ourplacesociety calling for CC for those "who wander our streets in obvious and alarming distress [...] at times, a source of considerable fear." timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/…
Victoria Tenant Action Group (@TAGVictoriaBC) stands with unhoused, evicted tenants as they fight against displacement out of tent cities and into #BCWarehousing thevolcano.org/2021/04/27/war…
We are standing representing all who are in or are being intimidated into being forced to take inadequate open congregate homeless shelter s as living spaces. This is unacceptable and the city’s lawyers have been given our demands.
@TAGVictoriaBC The unhoused also know that more of them die when they go inside. Mostly due to no capacity/on site community building. It’s run kindalike a jail/youth detention, thus the term I believe came outa Bert frm MapleRidge ‘Soft Incarceration’, thus #NoSoftIncarceration