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Bringing together the collective power of people from every neighbourhood for real rent control, tenant protections & better income and housing for all!

Vancouver Tenants Union (VTU) will bring tenants together to fight for better housing. Everyone (regardless of class, lifestyle, ability, age, gender, race, sexuality, or citizenship) deserves a safe, secure, and affordable home. Vancouver tenants are 50% of the population, are often isolated and at risk of being pushed out of their homes. The VTU will support tenants to learn their rights and sta

nd up to their landlords, developers and politicians (who are often the same people) who put their housing at risk. WE DEMAND:
-REAL RENT CONTROL
-EVICTION PROTECTIONS
-MORE HOUSING AND BETTER INCOMES FOR ALL

Our goals:
*To support a contact person or Tenant Organizer in every rental building in the city
*Create a force of renters with 1000s of dues paying members
*Change policy to benefit tenants
*Organize tenants to protect them from threats, intimidation and bribes that lead to the loss of their homes. The Vancouver Tenants Union is volunteer-led and membership supported. We are only as strong as our members. Thank you for joining the renters movement!

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We acknowledge that we are organizing, living, and resisting on unceded Coast Salish territories, specifically of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. We recognize that displacement and gentrification are part of the larger colonial and capitalist systems that occupy these lands. Fighting for tenants rights, is a fight for housing justice for all. No more displacement on stolen Native land!

06/09/2026

Three long term tenants from the Myron Manor Collective speak about organizing with their neighbours, the power of the union and the shady City policy being used to justify their displacement. Send a letter now to support these tenants at DefendMountPleasant.ca link in our bio!

06/02/2026

TAKE ACTION NOW TO DEFEND YOUR NEIGHBOURS!

Stand with the Myron Manor Collective tenants in the fight to save their homes.

City Staff are recommending the approval of a rezoning at 75 East 8th for a 21-story extended stay hotel. Their reasoning is that the Myron Manor apartment building is situated in designated industrial zoning and is not intended for residential use.

The developers of this project are Lotus Capital Corp and Nicola Wealth. They have billions of dollars in holdings, with services catering to “ultra-high-net-worth” clients.

If approved this project will replace the homes of people who have lived here for decades with short-term housing for employees working at Vancouver’s “booming high-tech and biotech firms.”

We choose the future of our community and our neighbours over the investments of the ultra rich!

Support these tenants by sending a letter to the City and the Developers stating your opposition to this hotel. 📨

Head to DefendMountPleasant.ca

05/22/2026

Myron Manor Collective in the news!

"There's a building full of toddlers and elders who have been calling this place home for decades"

Take a look at our Media page for the full article ++ send a letter in solidarity with the Myron Manor Collective

all at DefendMountPleasant.ca

We're calling on the City to REFUSE this rezoning ❌
We're calling on Nicola Wealth and Lotus Capital corp to CANCEL this project ❌

This building and the homes here must stay! No evictions for the sake of investments for the ultra-rich. NO EVICTIONS PERIOD!

Link in our bio ✊

05/16/2026

The tenants of 75 East 8th Ave have formed the Myron Manor Collective in order to fight for their homes!

Nicola Wealth Real Estate and Lotus Capital Corp have applied to rezone and demolish Myron Manor, at 75 E 8th Ave for a 21-storey extended-stay hotel. This is meant to provide short-term housing for remote tech workers and digital nomads.

This proposal threatens to destroy the homes of seniors, people with disabilities, an Indigenous elder, immigrants from all over the world, and young families. Some have lived here for decades. Some their entire lives. Many would likely have to leave the city or the province entirely.

This hotel will include “apartment-style living,” yet the tenants will not be entitled to move back into the new building like other projects within the Broadway Plan area.

This development would forever change the character of Mount Pleasant. It would displace a community of Filipino immigrants who call Myron Manor home, just minutes away from the proposed Filipino Cultural Centre.

Lotus Capital Corp and Nicola Wealth’s services cater to “ultra-high-net-worth” clients, with investments in the $20 million range and higher. We demand that the city prioritize the future of our community and our neighbours over the investments of the ultra rich!

Take Action now to support the Myron Manor Collective at www.DefendMountPleasant.ca

05/12/2026

Join Abby and her community of supporters (including you, me, and all who love Abby) at a neighborhood BBQ on Saturday, May 23, from 1-3 PM. The location is Kensington Park at Knight Street and 37th. There will be the usual BBQ fare for all to enjoy. We are going to celebrate Abby's judicial review win and prepare for the next hearing by being together. Come to support Abby and hope to see you there!

05/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE - VTU GENERAL MEETING
🕊️ Saturday, May 30 from 12-3pm
🏠 Grandview Church, 1803 East 1st Avenue
🍉 Masks required and provided
🦋 Childcare and food provided
💻 Remote attendance option available

Our focus for this month's GM will be discussion on communal union space, ambitions around moving our VTU office as per past year's visioning, and a budget overview for how we can achieve these goals.

RSVP link and volunteer sign up form in our bio. GM agenda coming soon! Following our meeting, we'll have a barbecue at Victoria Park (1425 Victoria Drive) from 3-5pm.

Poster by .mortenson 🌛

Venue accessibility information: Grandview Church has an accessible entrance at street level. The venue has gender-neutral washrooms and a kitchen. The width of the washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the width of the stall door is 61 cm.

Transit: take the 20 bus to East 1st or take the Expo Line skytrain to Commercial-Broadway station and walk north for 950 metres.

04/28/2026

As more and more tenants face demoviction under the Broadway Plan, they are meeting a new type of consultants: Tenant Relocations Specialists. VTU presents a guide to who these people are, whose interests they serve (spoiler: it’s not tenants) and how to protect yourself and your neighbours.

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Slide 1: A Tenant’s Guide to Relocation Specialists (VTU logo)

Slide 2: Screenshot of Tyee Headline “The City Promised to Protect Broadway Tenants. How’s That Working Out?”

Slide 3: Relocation Specialist Tactics
Poor communication: Cartoon of a ghost
Persistant contact: Cartoon of a spiky text bubble

Slide 4: Relocation Specialist Tactics
Failing to pay tenants [Cartoon of cash]

Slide 5: Cartoon of a banner reading “organize your building”

Slide 6: Cartoon of people with fists raised outside an apartment building

04/15/2026

Here is our letter to the Housing Minister! Bill 11 is only going to add to housing insecurity in this province. You can also read the letter on our website at vancouvertenantsunion.ca

04/14/2026

On Thursday, April 9th, members of the Vancouver Tenants Union (VTU) held a press conference & rally outside of landlord Andrzej Kowalski’s workplace, in response to Kowalski’s retaliatory lawsuit against the union for successfully organizing against two illegal eviction attempts.

The event marks 4 months since the VTU launched its Teach Landlords a Lesson (TLAL) campaign, which has raised over $22,000 of our $35,000 goal. Over 45 people attended the rally outside Kowalski’s office, hoisting banners made by members at a recent art build.

Our union is calling on all our allies, friends, supporters and comrades to: (1) get involved in the campaign, (2) join your local chapter, or (3) host a fundraiser to help defend the VTU.

As member & campaign organizer Tyler Work said: “We are determined to counter this unjust attack on our union with a campaign to show Kowalski and any other landlord that when they go after us, we get stronger. We will continue to defend our homes.”

04/10/2026

Dave Hamm from and Paul Henry from share their perspectives on BC's Bill 11 as supportive housing tenants. Why is this government refusing to consult or engage with the people directly affected by their policies?

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