Links

Helpful Links for Seniors and Supporters

Visit our Tin Cup webpage WHAT SENIORS ARE SAYING to hear stories submitted by seniors, family members and others from across Canada.

• SeniorsBC.ca BC Government Services for Seniors page
• BC Seniors Falling Further Behind Office of the Senior’s Advocate British Columbia
• Broadbent Institute Income Inequality
• Basic Income Canada Network Find out how a Universal Basic Income could benefit seniors
• National Senior’s Strategy
• Policy Options website – measuring actual seniors numbers who live in poverty
• BC Health Coalition
• singleseniorsfortaxfairness.com
• Vernon Seniors Action Network
• Aging in Uncertainty: The Growing Housing Crisis for BC Seniors Report by the United Way, British Columbia
• National Advisory Council on Poverty
• Canadian Association of Retired Persons
• BC Rebate for Accessible Home Adaptations (BC RAHA)
• BC HOUSING Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER)
• BC211 – Find help now
• Andrea Krombein, Marpole Oakridge Family Place Seniors Outreach Coordinator, CRN Representative andreak@mofp.org
• https://www.singleseniorsfortaxfairness.com/more-info Seniors for Tax Fairness
• Rental Assistance Program: https://www.bchousing.org/housing-assistance/rental-assistance-programs/RAP
• Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters program: https://www.bchousing.org/housing-assistance/rental-assistance-programs/SAFER
• Homes for People action plan: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023HOUS0019-000436
• Other Provincial Housing initiativesto tackle the housing crisis and deliver affordable homes for people in British Columbia: https://strongerbc.gov.bc.ca/housing  
• Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia