Al4 - Wednesday, December 2, 1981 - North Shore News

Renters’ group tells Socreds

TENANTS group leaders Richard Blackburn
and Greg Richmond, freshly rejected at the polls
in their bid for seats’ as aldermen on North
Vancouver City council, are now turning their
attention to the provincial political scene.

The two founders of the
North Shore Tenants’
Association have declared
that “a state of war exists
between tenants
Social Credit Government.”

They have invited all B.C.
renters to join them as their
“War Cabinet” launches its
“Vote For Anything But
Social Credit Campaign.”

They maintain they are
responding to a war which
they say is already being
weeed by landlords against
tenants, some of whom have
increased rents by as much
as 84 per cent.

“,ae landlords of B.C.
have, through their
government, declared
fina::cial war on tenants and
now Peter Hyndman has his
$7U %00 a year civil servant,
the Rentalsman, doing a
propaganda campaign
stating ‘all will be rosy next
year’,” a press release states.

It continues: “ ‘Not so, say
the tenants. Rent controls
are almost finished, rent
review was designed by
Hyndman to baffle renters,
and new construction which
was supposed to be inhibited
by rent controls is far from
being affordable. Or
competitive.”

Tenants Association
President Richard Black-
burn says the sole objective
of himself and his supporters
is to organize renters to
vote against Social Credit
in the next election, as a
response to threats of
eviction, intimidation,
denial of tenant rights and
lack of maintenance and
repairs.

and the 7

RICHARD BLACK-
BURN (left) and GREG
RICHMOND

His group is urging all
tenants to put “Vote For
Anything But Social Credit”
Signs in their windows and
on their balconies.

LINES DRAWN

“The battle lines are
drawn and it’s war between
tenants and the Social Credit
Government,” he says.

Blackburn urges tenants
to support provincial
candidates who support their
demands of rent control,
security of tenure, 4 tenants’
bill of rights, the rewriting of
the Residential Tenancy Act
and provincial government
involvement in the con-
struction of affordable rental
housing.

Greg Richmond, who is

vice president of the North
Shore Tenants Association,
announces a 12-point “War

Strategy.”

Richmond says. the
association will: ,

1. Continue to assist
tenants to organize;

2. Continue to hold

meetings to advise tenants of
their rights;

3. Carry its message to any
group wishing to hear it;

4. Seek out and “train”
willing volunteers;

5. Challenge all political

parties on their
relating to renters;

6. Continue to lobby all
levels of government for
financial support for renters’
aid offices;

7. Defend tenants who
have “just” disputes;

8. Advise landlords of
their rights and obligations;

9. Publicize the names of
landiords who abuse tenants;

10. Shut down the Office
of the Rentalsman so it can
no longer “rubber stamp”
landlords’ applications.

11. Stop advising tenant
groups against rent strikes;

12. Invite the support of
native people fighting for
Constitutional reform, the
B.C. Teachers’ Federation,
home-owner groups who
want education costs shifted
from

policies

residential property,
and ‘‘all other’ British
Columbians who need

legislative change.”

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