Atira Property Management

04/11/2023

Today we remember and honour Mary Garlow and Dennis Guay, whose lives were lost last year when fire destroyed the Winters Residence. We are also focused on the tenants affected by the fire; and we extend support to those fighting for justice, while still navigating their own personal loss and recovery. The Winters' fire was one of a number of devastating fires that happened in this community last spring and summer, and that continue to happen daily in the Downtown Eastside. We urge the government to commence the inquest it called for last year, and to speed up its SRO replacement program. We must fix this broken system that continues to put people made most vulnerable at the greatest risk.

04/05/2023

🙏 A heartfelt expression of gratitude goes out to Level Hotels & Furnished Suites for their remarkable donation of 217 TVs 📺 to Hotel Canada and Gastown Hotel 🏨 🏩. Your incredible generosity is making a significant impact on the comfort and well-being of our residents. We cannot thank you enough for your kindness and compassion. ❤️ 🌟

01/26/2023

The London Hotel, a once deteriorating SRO with dark rooms and outdated infrastructure, has now been revitalized. Atira is almost ready to re-open the building with a new name and a program to support the Indigenous community it will house.

View the article below for more information and before and after photos of The London.

  The London Hotel is actually three buildings, built between 1903 and 1910, which were functionally connected to form the externally quaint, red brick heritage C building it is now. Because of this, in the residential portion of the building, the bathrooms are small and odd, and in odd places. The...

09/28/2022

We had planned on issuing an update in October, six months after the fire. That said, recent media questions have necessitated we issue this update earlier than planned. It is long, but we elected to provide as much detail as possible, in an effort to be transparent.

See full update regarding residents of the former Winters Hotel:

  Download the update [PDF]     We had planned on issuing an update in October, six months after the fire. That said, recent media questions have necessitated we issue this update earlier than planned. It is long, but we elected to provide as much detail as possible, in an effort to be transparen...

09/16/2022

Atira will remain open on September 19th. While we recognize the importance of paid days off for all of our staff and would usually leap at the opportunity to provide same, we understand the relationship between the Queen and the institution she fronted, “The Crown,” and First Nations, Metis and Inuk communities, as well as between The Crown and other colonized peoples, is complicated, at best.

The Crown has perpetrated terrible abuses against Indigenous people in Canada, the Indigenous people of Ireland, and Black and racialized people around the world. The Crown has stolen people (slavery), land, resources, wealth, and in the past developed, implemented and more recently approved passing of deadly racist legislation – policies we now call genocide.

While the Queen, during her reign, worked to remain a-political, her representatives in Canada signed treaties that were and are not enforced, and gave Royal assent to legislation and policies that caused and are causing deadly harm. The Queen never apologized for The Crown’s role in imperialism, and The Crown has never offered to make reparations, despite the fact the institution is worth an estimated $28 billion.

Taking a day off to mourn the Queen’s passing, someone none of us had a close personal relationship with, feels antithetical to who we are as an organization. While we are required to offer September 19th off to our unionized staff, we will be offering everyone else one paid day off between now and March 31st, 2023.

While we may feel empathy for those who lost a sister, mother, grandmother, auntie, etc., we are encouraging our staff to take time to reflect on the harm caused by The Crown, and to consider what each of us is willing to give up to advance Reconciliation here in Canada and around the world.

08/25/2022

Statement from Christopher Amyotte’s Family:

“We also demand justice for Chris and for all Indigenous and Black people who are overrepresented in fatal police encounters across this country called Canada.”

Vancouver Police Department Murray Rankin Independent Investigations Office

Full statement here: http://ow.ly/otcx50KsGRO

If you can help, make a donation to Atira Women's Resource Society stating it's for Chris in the "In Recognition Of" section here: http://ow.ly/1mTT50KsGRS

08/16/2022

First month in recent memory where there were no deaths due to bad drug policy. Not sure what this means, it’s just one month, but we are all taking a deep breath, in this moment.

07/08/2022

Women at Sarah Ross House came together to share and express their experiences of misogyny through this collaborative art project. We are proud of the strength and resilience of the women in our programs everyday 🧡

Some women, in addition to gender, face additional barriers to full equality as a result of multiple oppressions related to class, racialization, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, disability, because they’re Indigenous women or because of other status.

06/13/2022

Appreciation post! 👏🏻

Please raise your hands up to all of the people who work at Atira and in the housing sector, particularly those providing supportive housing, for the complex and challenging work that we all do. We appreciate each and every one of you!

In 2021/22 Atira experienced 1,304 critical incidents, or 3.6 critical incidents each day. The most common critical incident involved violence. Please check out our Critical Incident Analysis Report for 2021/22 in the link below, and our critical incident dashboard for May 2022.

Learn more: http://ow.ly/mym450JwsaW

03/24/2022

Congratulations are in order for Atira Property Management Rental Property Manager Annarita for winning Rental Property Manager of the Year at last night's PAMA - Professional Association of Managing Agents awards ceremony and to John Fowler for being nominated for Strata Manager of the Year!

Congratulations Annarita and John! We thank you for all the work you do for our community! 😊

Thanks for all the work you do in the community and for ensuring people have access to safe and affordable housing! 😊🧡

03/24/2022

We want to give a big Atira shoutout to APMI Rental Property Manager Annarita for winning Rental Manager of the Year at last night's PAMA - Professional Association of Managing Agents ceremony and to John Fowler for being nominated for Strata Manager of the Year!

Congratulations Annarita and John! We thank you for all the work you do for our community! 😊

04/29/2021

Aggressive is a great way to put it. The lengths staff members have gone to earlier in the year in order to get everyone in the community vaccinated was nothing short of heroic. Many staff members were working seven days a week finding spaces, calling staff and programs to encourage guests, tenants and residents to get vaccinated, and even walking people in the community to clinics.

Thank you to the efforts of everyone at Vancouver Coastal Health for making this happen. Thank you to Bruk, Hajar, Angela, Colleen and all the staff at Atira continually going above and beyond for the folks we serve. This has not been an easy feat and would not have been achieve if not for the work of all the non-profit organizations in the community who are doing the same work. We are elated to be able to safely re-open much needed essential spaces in the community that are deeply missed.

Learn more:

Fewer COVID-19 outbreaks are occurring in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood because enough people have been vaccinated to reach local herd immunity, according to Vancouver Coastal Health.