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BC Homes Matter Please save BC manufactured home parks from current and future unfair redevelopment. ALL PAY YEARLY TAXES. Have no doubt THIS IS AUSTERITY.

Please save Surrey manufactured home parks from current and future unfair redevelopment. Redevelopment of Surrey and area parks to make way for "Innovation Blvd" along the King George corridor will displace low income families, disabled and retired people who are not in a financial or life situation to rebuild or simply move on. Some of the residents have lived in their homes in excess of 20 years

; some have purchased their homes recently. With the local and provincial bylaws as they sit, most could lose all equity in their homes in the event of looming redevelopment, being given only a year’s pad rental, $7,000-$8,000 as compensation. This is a fraction of what they have invested into their homes. There are virtually no reasonable spaces in the lower mainland to relocate an older mobile home to, if the home could be moved at all. In a market where low income housing is becoming more scarce, and the low income class is getting displaced, the redevelopment of our parks will further add to the problems of not only the individuals, most of whom could not recover from such a huge loss, but to the city and perhaps even province as well. To expect fixed or low income residents to cut their losses, in the tens of thousands of dollars, and move on, is criminal. Some of the residents would be required to move into care facilities based on fixed income, meaning they could very realistically lose the freedom, and livelihood they have worked their lives to achieve. We are aware huge development groups promise moderate income housing for all, yet none to date appear to meet the needs of thousands of manufactured home owners in Surrey and district.

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09/28/2015

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The repercussions of a colonial past are still ever present among the aboriginal communities in Canada. Through her talk, "Canada’s State of Emergency and Ho...

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In Coquitlam, Richmond, Burnaby and Vancouver, about 1 in 4 people spend more than 50 per cent of their income on rent.

09/20/2015

Unfortunately, austerity is spreading across north America like a disease...corporations and developers are targeting the most vulnerable since they often do not have the resources to fight back. Banks and governments are loving it because they earn more money from the hard sweat of the common man as we fall deeper and deeper into debt. Multi-generational mortgages on $1.5 million shoe-boxes?
A lot of ridiculously priced new developments are sitting empty, owned by non-citizens who live off shore and administered by development groups with numbered companies. Meanwhile our veterans, aged and handicapped live on the street?!
How is this the Canada our forefathers gave their lives for? It disgusts anyone with a beating heart.
These are not ex-cons, hookers and drug pushers...these are mostly grandmothers, single parents, young families, veterans and handicapped people! These are all our grandparents, mothers, children and siblings! THIS IS THE CANADIAN WAY OF LIFE! We are only as good as our least fortunate in this society... People need to stand up and fight. It can make a difference but we need to make our voices heard! No form of government wants rallying outside chambers with press attention while they pass unconscionable property laws!

09/20/2015

Greater Vancouver is flashing a code-red rental affordability crisis according to a new Canadian rental housing cost index. And B.C. has the most costly rent among all provinces in the index’s most critical measure, with 23.8 per cent of households spending more than 50 per cent of income on r…

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