Study suggests drug users in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside targeted for eviction GlobeBC
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“I think one of the saddest outcomes of this study was how difficult it was to find people for follow-up,” Ryan McNeil said on Tuesday. Dr. McNeil is a research scientist at the B.C. Centre on Substance Use and a co-author of the study.“So first and foremost, we need to understand evictions as an event that can precipitate an immediate, sustained and sometimes fatal decline in health,” he added.
Researchers found nuisance complaints, such as noise violations and breaches of building policies, were among the most commonly cited reasons for eviction, with participant accounts indicating such policies were “prejudicially enforced” among people who use drugs. BC Housing works with non-profit agencies that run the accommodations to determine whether to follow the Residential Tenancy Act or to strike a program agreement that sets out tenancy expectations, BC Housing spokeswoman Laura Mathews said in an e-mail.“In every case, B.C. Housing works with a non-profit to prevent people from being evicted to the streets,” Ms. Mathews added.
In their report, researchers called for policy reforms to help ensure people had access to services such as dispute resolution. “To say that they’re an absolute mess and a national embarrassment would be to understate the state they are actually in,” Dr. McNeil said, referring to SROs.
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