Anecdotally, I'm seeing way more rentals available in Victoria lately.
Getting rid of most of the Air BnBs definitely made a difference in the Vancouver rental market. Rent are down, there's less competition for places, more places on the market, etc...
I’m happy as well. Common sense prevailed in the end, but just barely. I feel like the conservatives’ more extreme elements and conspiracy theory nonsense are what kept them from winning. I’d like to think that they’ll maybe move back to the centre before the next election, but my faith in humanity is currently at an all-time low, so I have doubts that they will.
Barely is doing a LOT of work there. The people who voted for the BC Conservatives because "Justin Trudeau and the Liberal's have to go" should have been asked to identify the difference between federal and provincial elections.
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Getting rid of most of the Air BnBs definitely made a difference in the Vancouver rental market. Rent are down, there's less competition for places, more places on the market, etc...
Weird. My rent went up by 6%.
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Barely is doing a LOT of work there. The people who voted for the BC Conservatives because "Justin Trudeau and the Liberal's have to go" should have been asked to identify the difference between federal and provincial elections.
uugghhh... that's brutal, but unfortunately not surprising
they must have been totally confused before last year with the old bc liberal party. maybe that's why the bc liberals changed their name? ha!
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You agreed to that? 3.5% is the legal limit for 2024 and 3% is the limit next year
I'll tell you what happened us 4 years ago, right at the height of the pandemic. Our land lord increased our rent above the allowable limit. The lease was up and the new one they presented to us had large increase. We argued with them saying they weren't allowed to do that and refused to sign. The next week, they came back and evicted us saying that they were reincorporating the unit back into their home.
We called the residential tenancy branch and they said that it would probably be at least a year, with the average time being 15 months, to get a dispute resolution hearing. That is a long time to be basically squatting in an apartment when your land lord lives right next you and has keys to your home. Plus, I don't know what kind of goons they associate with and I was worried about the stress it would cause over that time.
We ended up just moving, which sucked. We couldn't find an affordable place in the same area, so my kid had to change schools which was hard on her emotionally. The new place was more expensive and it costed a few thousand dollars to move, plus time off work. At the end of the day, it probably didn't save us any money and we would have been better off just capitulating.
Now we are basically in the same situation. They go by year-to-year leases and increase the rent every year by more than what they are allowed to, but what choice is there really. Even if you dispute it and win over time, land lords have the ability to make your life miserable. We're trying to plan an exit strategy for next year, but we'll see I guess.
Edit: I just talked to my wife about what happened, and I had my wires crossed about the one year to 15 months time frame. That was about another matter we were dealing with at the time. What they told her on the phone at the time was that they couldn't guarantee it would happen within a month because there was a backlog of cases and because we weren't in imminent threat of being unhoused, our case would be triaged. They couldn't give us a time frame, but strongly urged us to work it out directly with out land lord.
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A fixed tenancy automatically turns into a month to month after the 1 year term.
The landlord can't make you sign a new fixed agreement at a higher rate above the allowable increase.
That story sounds terrible but not in line with the law.
I guess you just took the bad treatment instead of fighting the landlord but you would have won any fight or dispute.
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A fixed tenancy automatically turns into a month to month after the 1 year term.
The landlord can't make you sign a new fixed agreement at a higher rate above the allowable increase.
That story sounds terrible but not in line with the law.
I guess you just took the bad treatment instead of fighting the landlord but you would have won any fight or dispute.
It may even be worth pursuing now. You could claim it was an unlawful forced eviction and they could be on the hook for moving costs and increased rent.
"Why are these people left to continually repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat offend and there's no consequence? Catch and release, catch and release."
"We don't report the crime because it's not worth it."
Oh hey, I hear reported crime is down.
The Gourmet Warehouse has been located at East Hastings Street and Clark Drive for more than two decades.
CEO Caren McSherry said the location wasn’t a great area when the business moved in, but that past issues were “nothing to the epidemic proportions we are facing right now.”
I had a retail office for a few years and the police reporting process was hilarious.
I still have a video of a police car doing a rolling stop by my front door while the alarm was going off and then just leaving without even getting out of the car to check on the busted open door.
But I sympathize with the police, they don't have power to do anything and it's just a resource suck for them to be doing this all the time.
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No jail time for man who fatally stabbed senior in Vancouver
Woods had been drinking with a friend when they entered the Biltmore around 2 p.m. and took the elevator to the sixth floor. They continued drinking and took drugs inside a suite for about half an hour before leaving, pounding on doors and yelling as they walked down the hallway.
"During this interaction, Mr. Woods produced a knife and stabbed Mr. Gortmaker once in the upper left chest/collar bone area."
Woods then pushed the bleeding 72-year-old out of the elevator at the fifth floor where he fell to the ground. Woods rode the elevator back down to the second floor where he made his way to a balcony and leapt out onto a street-level electrical box and walked north on Prince Edward Street.
Despite his confession, Woods was released without charges or conditions after the interrogation. He remained free for nine months until, on Sept. 10, 2021, a manslaughter charged was approved and Woods was arrested on a warrant later that day, the judge wrote.
A toxicology report showed the victim had "unknown quantities" of alcohol, cocaine and fentanyl in his system but there was no evidence he was feeling the effects of the substances when he died, according to the judge's summary of the findings.
"My Uncle Alex was brutally taken from us in a senseless act of violence," she continued. "His life was stolen, his joy and sense of humour stolen. This leaves a void that will not ever be filled and scars that may never fully heal."
The judge was ultimately convinced of the offender's lack of culpability in the killing, noting the abuse he suffered as a child and his intellectual disabilities. My conclusion is based on the following collective factors; Mr. Woods's direct and indirect experiences as an Indigenous person, his significant cognitive deficits, his ADHD and to a lesser extent his state of intoxication," the judge wrote.
No jail time for man who fatally stabbed senior in Vancouver
Woods had been drinking with a friend when they entered the Biltmore around 2 p.m. and took the elevator to the sixth floor. They continued drinking and took drugs inside a suite for about half an hour before leaving, pounding on doors and yelling as they walked down the hallway.
"During this interaction, Mr. Woods produced a knife and stabbed Mr. Gortmaker once in the upper left chest/collar bone area."
Woods then pushed the bleeding 72-year-old out of the elevator at the fifth floor where he fell to the ground. Woods rode the elevator back down to the second floor where he made his way to a balcony and leapt out onto a street-level electrical box and walked north on Prince Edward Street.
Despite his confession, Woods was released without charges or conditions after the interrogation. He remained free for nine months until, on Sept. 10, 2021, a manslaughter charged was approved and Woods was arrested on a warrant later that day, the judge wrote.
A toxicology report showed the victim had "unknown quantities" of alcohol, cocaine and fentanyl in his system but there was no evidence he was feeling the effects of the substances when he died, according to the judge's summary of the findings.
"My Uncle Alex was brutally taken from us in a senseless act of violence," she continued. "His life was stolen, his joy and sense of humour stolen. This leaves a void that will not ever be filled and scars that may never fully heal."
The judge was ultimately convinced of the offender's lack of culpability in the killing, noting the abuse he suffered as a child and his intellectual disabilities. My conclusion is based on the following collective factors; Mr. Woods's direct and indirect experiences as an Indigenous person, his significant cognitive deficits, his ADHD and to a lesser extent his state of intoxication," the judge wrote.
If it isn't bad enough yet I can see a pretty extremely culture war percolating against people who commit these crimes and the bleeding heart Liberals who allow it continue without consequences.
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Seems pretty weird to leave out what you did. Sounds like someone without a criminal record who was immediately and continually remorseful and has taken their treatment very seriously. They spent 7 months in jail and have since been at a recovery house undergoing treatment where they will have 24/7 house arrest for the next year with curfew for a year after that.
If the outcome is rehabilitation, that’s what is being achieved.
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