Other Resources for Tenants

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Housing alternatives[edit]

BC Active Manufactured Home Owners Association For those who own their manufactured home. Website: www.amhoa.ca

Phone: (250) 544-1456

BC Housing subsidized housing information Website: www.bchousing.org

Phone: (604) 433-2218
Phone toll-free: 1-800-257-7756

Co-operative Housing Federation of BC Information for people living in co-ops. Website: www.bcca.coop/member/co-operative-housing-federation-bc

Phone: (604) 879-5111
Phone toll-free: 1-866-879-5111

Government[edit]

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Residential Tenancy Branch | width="40%" | Government department that carries out residential tenancy law. Provides information and dispute resolution services. Visit their website to download forms, see legislation, policy guidelines, and fact sheets. | width="40%" | Website: [1]
Lower Mainland Phone: (604) 660-2421
Victoria Phone:(250) 387-1602
Phone toll free: 1-800-663-7867


|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Service BC(Government Agent) | width="40%" | If there is no Residential Tenancy Branch office where you live, you can call or visit Service BC. | width="40%" | Website: [2]
Phone:(604) 660-2421
Phone toll-free: 1-800-663-7867


|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Property Use Inspector | width="40%" | Repairs, heat, fire safety, City of Vancouver only. | width="40%" | Website: [3]
Phone: (604) 873-7398 or 311 |}


Advocacy and referral services[edit]

Lower Mainland:[edit]

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Coastal Health Protection | width="40%" | Information about bed bugs, rodent and insect infestations. | width="40%" | Website: [4]
Phone: (604) 736-2033
Phone toll-free: 1-866-884-0888

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Coastal Health Protection | width="40%" | Information about bed bugs, rodent and insect infestations. | width="40%" | Website: [5]
Phone: (604) 736-2033
Phone toll-free: 1-866-884-0888

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Coastal Health Protection | width="40%" | Information about bed bugs, rodent and insect infestations. | width="40%" | Website: [6]
Phone: (604) 736-2033
Phone toll-free: 1-866-884-0888

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Coastal Health Protection | width="40%" | Information about bed bugs, rodent and insect infestations. | width="40%" | Website: [7]
Phone: (604) 736-2033
Phone toll-free: 1-866-884-0888

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Coastal Health Protection | width="40%" | Information about bed bugs, rodent and insect infestations. | width="40%" | Website: [8]
Phone: (604) 736-2033
Phone toll-free: 1-866-884-0888

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Vancouver Coastal Health Protection | width="40%" | Information about bed bugs, rodent and insect infestations. | width="40%" | Website: [9]
Phone: (604) 736-2033
Phone toll-free: 1-866-884-0888

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Credit Counseling Society of BC | width="40%" | Provides assistance with debt problems. | width="40%" | Website: www.nomoredebts.org
Phone toll-free: 1-888-527-8999
Email: info@nomoredebts.org

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Dial-A-Law | width="40%" | Dial-A-Law is a library of practical legal information. It is operated by the BC Branch of the Canadian Bar Association. You can listen to the Dial-A-Law scripts over the phone, or read them on the website. The scripts are available in English, Chinese and Punjabi. | width="40%" | Website: www.dialalaw.org
Phone: 604-687-4680
Phone toll-free: 1-800-565-5297

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Lawyer Referral | width="40%" | Offers advice and information from a lawyer for a fee of $25 plus taxes for the first 30 minutes. | width="40%" | Website: www.cba.org/bc/
Phone: 604-687-3221 (Greater Vancouver)
Phone toll-free: 1-800-663-1919 from anywhere else in the province.

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | People's Law School | width="40%" | View the online animations "You Owe Money" and "Someone Owes You Money". | width="40%" | Website: www.publiclegaled.bc.ca; click on "Media" and then "Videos"

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Mediate BC | width="40%" | Mediate BC specializes in a wide variety of dispute resolution tools and processes. | width="40%" | Website: www.mediatebc.com |-

|- valign="top" | width="20%" | Clicklaw | width="40%" | An Internet portal for public legal information and education in British Columbia. | width="40%" | Website: www.clicklaw.bc.ca

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