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The media is now saying that full rent control in SROs is ‘non-controversial’. It should be, but that only happened because of all your support! #vanpoli#FullRentControl https://t.co/Dxeb8gcaB2

— Jean Swanson (@JeanSwanson_) December 13, 2019

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Lion Hotel

• Global News: Conditions still deplorable at Downtown Eastside hotel despite warning from city
• Vancouver Courier: Time running out for ‘slumlord millionaire’
• CBC: Lion Hotel heating still broken, Vancouver tenants left shivering
• CBC: Downtown Eastside Lion Hotel tenants need space heaters, says advocate
• CBC: Lion Hotel tenants still without heat despite city deadline
• Global News: Outrage mounts over Vancouver SRO that’s been without heat for weeks
• Global News: UPDATE: City says services at Lion Hotel restored, tenants claim otherwise

Regent Hotel

• CBC Investigates: City of Vancouver orders Regent Hotel to ‘correct deficiencies’
• CBC Investigates: Vancouver Regent Hotel tenants fight for heat, hot water

Balmoral Hotel

• CBC: Balmoral Hotel residents stranded by broken elevator again
• CKNW: Updated: More problems with DTES SRO at Balmoral Hotel
• CBC Investigates: Balmoral Hotel’s broken elevator fixed, residents no longer stranded, after CBC investigation
• CBC Investigates: Balmoral Hotel’s disabled tenants trapped by broken elevator
• Vancouver Sun: Vancouver tenants seek compensation for broken elevator
• News 1130: Balmoral Hotel wins award for worst DTES rooming house

West Hotel

• CBC: West Hotel tenants launch historic $70K lawsuit against Vancouver landlord
• 24 Hours: Tenants file landmark complaint against landlord

Clifton Hotel

• 24 Hours: Low-income Clifton hotel residents face evictions
• The Globe and Mail: Landlords bicker as building deteriorates
• The Mainlander: Clifton hotel tenants fight for better living conditions
• The Georgia Straight: Residents face eviction
• The Thunderbird: Countdown is on for evicted Clifton tenants

Ross

• CBC: DTES hotel tenants fight eviction after New Year’s rent increase
• CTV: Residents facing homelessness after rooming house hikes rent
• Metro: DTES residents start new year with eviction notices
• Metro: SRO landlord blames Airbnb cancellation for hiking rents 
• 24 Hours: DTES tenants rally against rent hikes
• The Province: DTES tenants rally against hikes at Ross House

General articles about SROs and housing

• Kerry Jang on city’s broken-down SROs: ‘There’s only so much we can do’
• Three Vancouver SROs win prize for worst living conditions
• The Volcano: Will fixed-term leases erase 40 years of tenant organizing in the DTES?
• The Volcano: Ross House tenants fight eviction
• The Volcano: Tenacious tenant undeterred by lack of enforcement action at Regent 
• The Volcano: Grassroots demovictions report warns of Metrotown’s collision course with mass displacement
• The Volcano: Our work is a warning to other landlords
• The Volcano: Wheel of misfortune to spin at SRO tenant convention
• The Volcano: SRO Renovictions break up communities
• Megaphone: Maintained SROs play a critical role in the housing spectrum
• Megaphone: Resolving the homeless crisis
• CKNW: City of Vancouver says it’s powerless to stop SRO rent hikes
• Vancouver Sun: Vancouver introduces harsh rules dissuade owners from renovicting
• Global News: Future of SRO in Vancouver’s DTES up in the air
• Global News: Which is the worst SRO hotel in Vancouver’s DTES?
• Georgia Straight: Vancouver mental health advocates question rules for SRO tenants
• Georgia Straight: DTES SRO Renovictions rouse tenants’ action
• 24 Hours: SRO tenants have 6% chance of homelessness
• The Province: Thousands of Vancouver’s poorest living in buildings listed at risk in earthquake 
• Rabble: Organizing very low-income tenants in the DTES
• Rabble: Vancouver city council not protecting low-income housing
• Rabble: Housing rights and slumlords in Vancouver
• Rabble: Low cost housing under threat
• Rabble: Second restaurant picked in Vancouver’s DTES
• Rabble: Unpacking housing numbers: interview with CCPA’s Seth Klein
• Rabble: Fake policy hides disappearing low-income housing
• Rabble: Social housing reality check: B.C. government’s own numbers reveal modest investment in social housing
• Rabble: Vancouver’s high end retail shops pushing out longtime residents 
• Rabble: Residents fight gentrified DTES
• Rabble: Housing crisis grows
• BC Government: Renovation project to revitalize 13 Vancouver SRO hotels