NEW ZINE! Know your rights in SRO and supportive housing buildings
P.O.W.E.R., tenants and housing justice groups have created a free resource on tenancy rights in so-called 'supportive housing' and SRO units
Tenants and members of POWER, the Surrey Union of Drug Users, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Our Homes Can’t Wait, Vancouver Tenants Union, Pivot Legal Society, Community Legal Assistance Society, Tenant Resource Advisory Centre and Kílala Lelum Health and Healing Cooperative have come together to resist ongoing pushes by the BC NDP to strip the rights of tenants living in SRO and so-called “supportive housing” buildings.
The new zine includes educational and advocacy information on the rights of tenants living in “supportive housing” under British Columbia’s Residential Tenancy Act. It also outlines some landlord responsibilities, while addressing frequently asked questions we have heard.
Download, print and distribute the free zine below!
Read our coalition’s October 2025 press release by clicking here.
Relevant readings and resources
CLAS: BC’s proposal to strip tenant rights in supportive housing is a betrayal to renters
Our Homes Can’t Wait report: Housing, homeless & carcerality in Vancouver’s downtown eastside
The Mainlander: Carceral tenancies in Vancouver
University of Victoria: The language of neglect: A critical discourse analysis of single room occupancy housing inspection reports
Harm Reduction Journal: Increases in housing rules and surveillance during COVID-19: impacts on overdose and overdose response in Vancouver
Gabrielle Peters: Submission to the B.C. Government on Accessibility Legislation