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Advocate warns city to prevent ‘poor doors’ Dustin Godfrey dgodfrey@newwestrecord.ca
An advocate for people experiencing poverty and homelessness was given reassurances there likely won’t be any “poor doors” in developments approved for construction in Burnaby. Angela Sealy, CEO of
Westcoast Facilitators Group, in partnership with Atira Resource Society, conducted a public engagement in Metro Vancouver around so-called poor doors.The term refers to mixed developments that have separate doors in the same building for market units and non -market units.
Sealy recently presented the findings of her study to Burnaby’s planning and development committee. The engagement included an online survey and a virtual focus group, with participants from throughout the region. The concept is one that hasn’t come to Burnaby so far, but the poor door
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has raised controversies in neighbouring Vancouver and NewWestminster, the latter of which spurred Sealy to take action. “The more people that talk about this, the better off for us to stamp out this – what I’m hoping is not a trend,” Sealy said. Sealy’s survey saw 67 responses, which she said
was not as many as she would have liked but was understandable given the context of the pandemic. Among the respondents, 46 had “negative feelings” about the poor door concept and 27 outright disagreed with it, according to Sealy’s report, while only four respondents agreed with it.
The report noted 46% of the respondents were homeowners, while 22% were renters, 3% lived with family, 3% lived in a coop and 1% stayed in a shelter.Three of the respondents were Burnaby residents, according to the report.
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