Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative

The SRO Collaborative was established to organize SRO tenants in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside and Chinatown. SROs are typically small single rooms about 1010 feet with a shared bathroom on each floor and typically without a shared kitchen. They were built at the turn of the 20th century for seasonal workers in the resource industry and over time became the last stop before homelessness. There are 87 privately-owned SROs that are open in Vancouver today that rent at about $600/month or less. They are known to be aging, decrepit, infamously lawless and inhabitable places to live with poor maintenance and numerous health and safety code violations. In addition to these 87 hotels, a few dozen hotels were renovated and in some cases, rents rose to $1500/month for a single room in these boutique hotels. A few more dozen hotels were purchased by governments, renovated and operated as deeply subsidized supportive housing by housing non-profit agencies.

Call (604) 839-0379, or use the website.

Phone

(604) 839-0379

Website

https://dtescollaborative.org/