Vancouver non profit First United has created an interactive map that provides information on a number of evictions across B.C.
Sarah Marsden, director of systems change and legal at First United, spoke with People First Radio to help break down the data.
One finding was that around 1 in 4 people reported not finding a new place to live after eviction.
“Homelessness is not just street homelessness,” Marsden said. “It does include street homelessness, folks living in shelters, but we also saw a lot of people who were living in vehicles or living in, like, sort of in someone’s spare room or couch surfing, in a sense that they didn’t have their own home.”
“That was something that affected people across different income levels as well. Not only the lowest income levels. The mechanism of eviction didn’t give people enough time to find housing, or possibly they were never going to find housing because of the differential between the rent they were paying and the rent they would be facing in a market with unlimited rent increases, which is what we have right now.”
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