Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Vancouver Tenants Union Profile picture
Vancouver Tenants Union
@YVRTenantsUnion
Are you a renter? Join us: https://t.co/aCsFzwk8Qa
Sep 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Evictions are violence, and it's low-income and racialized tenants who bare the brunt of this. With the @bcndp lifting the eviction ban, the Guevarras, Sarah Lindsay and The Bottle Depot on Carolina and Broadway are being evicted on the 30th of September. Justice for Nelia! The tenants will be kicked out of their homes for another @PortLiving project - they've bought up blocks of property around Fraser and Main. Lots of condos and empty storefronts here now, though there's been reports that they are owing millions of unpaid debt.
Aug 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
B.C. Tenants Report Deteriorating Mental Health, Going Hungry, and Fears About Making Rent. Read our full report below.

vancouvertenantsunion.ca/rent_debt_surv… We were shocked by the responses that we got:
- A significant number of all respondents (63%) reported experiencing increased mental health issues
- 28% of written responses described sacrificing basic nutrition or going hungry
Apr 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Happening NOW👇
#bcpoli #vanpoli Last week we surveyed renters about being able to pay rent for May. Here are some responses:

“I emailed my landlord saying my rent is a hundred percent of my income and he said his mortgage company won't give him a break so I don't get a break."

#CancelRent #CancelMortgages
Mar 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Our Renters Toolkit and other resources on bcrentcrisis.ca will be updated to reflect info the provincial government provided yesterday. Yesterday is the first time they've actually clarified how evictions and rents are to be handled.

www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ho… Image KEY INFO: Eviction notices issued after March 30th are considered without force. This means that they won't have to be disputed in 5 days which is good. People can prioritize health and buy the things they need.

#BCRentCrisis bcrentcrisis.ca
Mar 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
April 1st is coming fast.
The income support offered from different levels of government won’t come in time.

It’s up to us to support one another to get through this. Please don’t suffer alone.
#BCRentCrisis bcrentcrisis.ca

vancouvertenantsunion.ca/rentcrisis We are telling all renters:
Be Safe. Just Stay. Even if you Cannot Pay.
Share your stories. Connect with neighbors.
Learn how to safely organize your building under COVID-19. Download the Renter’s Toolkit.
#BCRentCrisis #FoodbeforeRent

vancouvertenantsunion.ca/rentcrisis
Mar 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
What does "in principle" mean in a real sense to the people who ARE CURRENTLY BEING EVICTED?? How does "in principle" do anything for these people within the next 10 days? #EvictionMoratorium #bcrentcrisis @adriandix @selinarobinson @bcndp Time is running out for tenants suddenly at risk of losing their homes due to #Covid_19 job loss. Does the province really expect every single landlord to be "principled"? We don't just hope people are "principled" and not harm each other in other ways - that's what laws are for.
Jan 18, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
UPDATE: Minister @selinarobinson has rejected request from @CityofVancouver council to implement #VacancyControl in SRO housing.

1/6 The minister is concerned that rents tied to units will “reduce investment in needed repairs” on private SROs, citing the 2018 #RentalHousingTaskForce conclusions. This boilerplate response is disappointing and fails to grasp the issues with private SRO maintenance 2/6
Nov 27, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
#Renovicted and #Demovicted tenants gathered this morning to to address the CoV’s 236-pg Rental Incentive Report Back demanding adequate disincentives for displacement. #VanPoli Image Exhibit A: The Tenant Relocation & Protection Policy, which Council relies on to mitigate displacement, is toothles:
“The TRPP doesn’t help us; the landlord just sends us a few Craigslist Ads,” - Sarah, a renovicted tenant in Mt Pleasant who lives on disability.
Oct 8, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Happening now: Rally in Hastings Sunrise against #Demoviction of tenants at 326 Nanaimo #vanpoli Image @CityofVancouver must enforce Tenant Relocation Policy and help relocate these tenants. So far they have not and eviction date is Thanksgiving Day. TRP without the “R” is just TP
#vanpoli Image
Mar 31, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
On Jan 17, council approved the demoviction of a Hastings Sunrise rental building that houses a small community of low income WOC renting 1 and 2bd units between $650-800, in order to make room for “affordable” market rates starting @ $1400 for a studio and $2500 for 2bd /1 Image VTU spoke on behalf of tenants because they were either unable to represent themselves or unwilling for the fear of repercussions. We asked that the 8 existing tenants be rehoused in the new development at their current or similar rents. /2
Mar 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Listening to tenants at Port Coquitlam City Hall tell their stories of the threat of renovictions at Bonnie Brae Apartments (65 units) City Council will vote tonight on the ability to fine renovicting landlords through a business license bylaw. Image Mayor Brad West: when a business is operating in a matter that is just predatory....thanks but no thanks.
Feb 5, 2019 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Absolutely packed house at New West City Hall tonight! Here to witness if council takes concrete action to #StopRenovictions! Image Thread >>> we’ll be tweeting some talking points from the speakers here!
Jan 18, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
At the City Hall, the council looking into rezoning the site of a rental building in Hastings Sunrise were current tenants pay between $6-800 for 1-2 bedrooms, to be replaced with an "affordable" rental starting from $2500 for a 2-bedroom.
The legacy of Vision's Rental 100. The Council is considering not proceeding with approval because of unwarranted $0.5M DCL waiver & inevitable displacement of tenants.
Kennedy: "we have inherited two competing policies, TRPP and Rental100, and we're feeling the gap now".

Unsure which way they'll decide to lean.
Dec 5, 2018 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
So far so good! Pete Fry speaks in favor of the motion and adds an amendment that includes the option that staff look for other measures to stop Renovictions (in addition to the ones in the motion) and adds in demovictions. The mayor, Kirby-Young and Dominato all speak in favor of Pete’s amendment. The amendment passes.
Nov 29, 2018 • 46 tweets • 7 min read
Daryl: “many of the tenants in my building are seniors or recent immigrants. many of the tenants in my building have no idea about their rights.” “I went to the RTB to clarify what the tenants rights are after weeks of unbearable demolition noise” Daryl had to talk to worksafe BC before tenants were told that there is asbestos in the building.
Nov 29, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Fiona from @CCAPdtes “when DTES residents were asked in a survey where they would go if they were evicted the top answer was “on the street”” “Don’t just give us resources to fight the bad behavior when it happens. Give us the tools to stop 🛑 the bad behavior”
Nov 29, 2018 • 44 tweets • 6 min read
Back at City Hall and back live tweeting from Tenants who are impacted by wide spread renovictions. Time to get City Hall to act! First speaker today. Our housing security cannot be left up to landlords personality and financial goals.
Nov 28, 2018 • 65 tweets • 11 min read
Gonna be live tweeting the powerful speakers tonight on Motion B10 on this thread. Speaker #7, Jen Efting: so many of our friends have had to move out of Vancouver bc of renovictions. My kid asks where they are, why they left
Landlord lets the building rundown, we pay unreasonable fees he asks for, not because we're stupid but because we can't lose this house.
Nov 26, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This coming week can be the week that Vancouver stop losing homes to renovictions.

Come out to rally on Tues, Nov 27, 5pm at City Hall and stay to support speakers: facebook.com/events/2218911…

Speeches will be going till 10pm and then 5-10pm the next day. Join us for solidarity!✌🏼 If you are not one of the ~100 tenants who've signed up already to speak on @swanson4council's Motion B10, "Protecting Tenants from Renovictions and Aggressive Buy-outs", you have a chance TODAY to write to Mayor and Council in support: vancouvertenantsunion.ca/ban-renovictio… #vanpoli
Oct 24, 2018 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Developer/Renovicter Jon Stovall already stoking fears about #RealRentControlBC on @CBCStephenQuinn this morning, saying #VacancyControl will be 1 of "27 recommendations" the #RentalHousingTaskForce will make (1:48:00): bit.ly/2ywaJKP He must be flaunting insider knowledge he enjoys w @bcndp b/c no info on the recommendations is public knowledge yet. BTW Stovall is president of Reliance Properties Ltd. - currently trying to mass renovict Berkley Tower tenants in the #WestEnd (ICYMI: bit.ly/2PpvPnS)
Oct 24, 2018 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
The election's over but the fight continues: we're launching a new campaign to bring REAL RENT CONTROL back to BC!

With real rent control landlords couldn't raise rents when tenants move out - a simple fix that would fight rising costs and renovictions!
bit.ly/2NXgQwv Currently, BC has a form of rent control that allows landlords to raise rents 2.5% every year. But they can also raise rent as much as they want when you move out or are evicted. This drives up rents and encourages landlords to evict and renovict tenants! bit.ly/2q7gDgL