Age Discrimination in Housing – What’s Legal, What’s Not

By Laura Track, Human Rights Clinic Lawyer, January 2023

Recently, the provincial government made changes to BC’s Strata Property Act. The amendments remove stratas’ ability to prevent or limit rentals (section 141). They also limit stratas’ ability to set age restrictions (sections 123.1 and […]

2024-01-30T14:18:01-08:00January 19, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Mental Disabilities and Human Rights in Housing

By: Emily Zarychta, Human Rights Clinic Lawyer, July 14, 2022

Housing is an essential part of our security and health, especially to those who have mental disabilities. People with mental disabilities are especially vulnerable to precarious housing and homelessness.[1]

Housing providers including landlords, co-ops, and […]

Human Rights in Heat Waves

By Emily Zarychta and Laura Track, Human Rights Clinic Lawyers, June 16, 2022

Climate change is an increasing risk to human health. The heat dome that swept across BC in June, 2021 saw temperatures soar to a record-breaking 49.6°C in some parts of the province. A […]

How Smells and Human Rights Intersect

May 10, 2022 by Emily Zarychta, Human Rights Clinic Lawyer

Smells can be very polarizing. Take the ‘king of the fruit’ – the durian – as an example. This much-loved fruit smells so pungent[1] that the fruits are banned from Singapore’s subway systems and […]

No-Pet Clauses and Human Rights – Part Two ( Medical Information)

February 14th, 2022 by Emily Zarychta, Human Rights Clinic Advocate

This blog post is a follow-up to our July 13, 2020 post: No-Pet Clauses and Human Rights. Our Clinic continues to receive many questions about this issue, and there have been some developments in the […]

Watch our new video to learn more about how BC’s Human Rights Code protects us from discrimination in our tenancies

Renters have a right to be treated fairly, without discrimination, by their landlords.

To watch our new Human Rights and Tenancy video, please check our website page here: https://bchrc.net/legal-information/audio-video/#videodirect

 

2024-01-30T14:29:44-08:00February 24, 2021|Tags: , , , , |

No-Pet Clauses and Human Rights

Laura Track, Human Rights Lawyer July 13, 2020

This blog post has been adapted and updated from an article originally published in the Fall, 2018 edition of Landlord BC’s magazine The Key.

Landlords play an important role in protecting human rights by providing discrimination-free housing and […]

Stratas and Human Rights

By Laura Track

Here at the BC Human Rights Clinic, we see many human rights complaints involving stratas. They are among the most difficult cases to deal with and resolve. They can pit neighbour against neighbour, involve massive amounts of stress and acrimony, and cause the […]

“Squishing” into a tight rental housing market: Family status protections for tenants

By Laura Track

This article was originally published in the Winter 2018 issue of Landlord BC’s magazine called The Key.

Robbin Abernathy is the mother in a family of six.[1] Like many families in BC, she has struggled to find appropriate rental housing […]

2024-01-30T17:45:05-08:00December 5, 2018|Tags: , , , |
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