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Homes For All

How BC's majority government can enshrine human rights protections for people living in poverty

On International Human Rights Day, the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and Pivot Legal Society are renewing calls for an amendment to the BC Human Rights Code to include protections based on social condition.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog, Project Inclusion, Homes For All

Joint letter to Vancouver Park Board on by-law amendment regarding sheltering in parks

Joint letter (BCCLA, UBCIC & Pivot) in response to Vancouver Park Board resolution concerning by-law amendment to temporarily sheltering in parks.
By Anna Cooper Anna Cooper | Jul 27, 2020 | Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Letters requesting warming options at Oppenheimer Park

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jan 16, 2020 | Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Why People Without Housing Still Need Heat: The Limits of the City’s Winter Response Strategy

Despite the heavy snowfall we are experiencing, Oppenheimer Park residents continue to be refused onsite-options for warming. We recently sent letters calling on both Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services and the City of Vancouver to “meet people where they are” and provide warming options for those who will inevitably remain outside in the cold this season.
By Anna Cooper Anna Cooper | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Homes For All

Health, Heat, and Homelessness: CCAP and Pivot respond to Park Board decampment plan for Oppenheimer Tent City amidst ongoing safety concerns

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Dec 20, 2019 | Blog, Homes For All

Social Condition

We must develop a flexible definition of Social Condition that includes an element of disadvantage and explicitly identifies housing status.
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Dec 17, 2019 | Homes For All, Position Papers

Oppenheimer Park residents and supporters celebrate 1-year of resilience

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Dec 13, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society responds to most recent Anita Place ruling

The Court did not condone the City’s “priorities and approach” regarding Anita Place, and invited the parties to bring another application regarding the constitutionality of the City’s conduct.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jul 18, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society files appeal to BC Supreme Court Order after heavy-handed enforcement at Anita Place

We intend to inform the Court of the City and RCMP’s misconduct over the weekend, which included numerous and egregious contraventions of Justice Grauer’s decision.
By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Feb 25, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society seeks leave to appeal aspects of BC Supreme Court ruling on Anita Place. Encouraged by recognition of life safety concerns and the allowing of solid structures

We are encouraged by the Court's recognition of life safety concerns and the allowing of solid structures
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Feb 08, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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