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The Highs and Lows of SROs : Rents and the rate of change in the Downtown Eastside : 2019-2020 COVID-Eye’zd CCAP hotel survey & housing report York, Fiona
Abstract
The Hotel Report has been published every year since 2008 to measure the progress, loss, and degradation of the Downtown Eastside’s privately-owned, privately managed Single Room Occupancy hotel stock. During that time, there have been some changes and minor improvements, but mostly a massive flight of affordable housing for the city’s most vulnerable lowincome population while economic suffering compounded with the overdose crisis and multi-generational trauma to produce a homelessness and humanitarian emergency. Due to this year’s particular challenges and pandemic, this report comprises a longer than usual time frame, with updates from June 2019 through January 2021. The research is specific to privately-owned, privately managed hotels located within the Downtown Eastside. Once again, the data indicates an increase in average rents and decrease of overall affordable, available hotel units for the majority low-income Downtown Eastside population. All of this is against a backdrop of local and national political struggles around Indigenous land and water rights, police brutality and calls to defund the police, and a worldwide epidemic that triggered widespread community closures and overwhelming isolation but takes a fatality backseat to the ongoing devastation of the overdose crisis. Nothing short of a housing revolution is needed.
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The Highs and Lows of SROs : Rents and the rate of change in the Downtown Eastside : 2019-2020 COVID-Eye’zd CCAP hotel survey & housing report
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2021-02
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The Hotel Report has been published every
year since 2008 to measure the progress,
loss, and degradation of the Downtown
Eastside’s privately-owned, privately
managed Single Room Occupancy hotel
stock. During that time, there have been
some changes and minor improvements,
but mostly a massive flight of affordable
housing for the city’s most vulnerable lowincome population while economic suffering
compounded with the overdose crisis and
multi-generational trauma to produce a
homelessness and humanitarian emergency.
Due to this year’s particular challenges
and pandemic, this report comprises a
longer than usual time frame, with updates
from June 2019 through January 2021. The
research is specific to privately-owned,
privately managed hotels located within the
Downtown Eastside. Once again, the data
indicates an increase in average rents and
decrease of overall affordable, available hotel
units for the majority low-income Downtown
Eastside population. All of this is against a backdrop of local
and national political struggles around
Indigenous land and water rights, police
brutality and calls to defund the police,
and a worldwide epidemic that triggered
widespread community closures and
overwhelming isolation but takes a fatality
backseat to the ongoing devastation of the
overdose crisis. Nothing short of a housing
revolution is needed.
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eng
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2021-05-06
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0397290
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Unreviewed
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Other
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