We’ve received the following information from BC Hydro. If you or anyone in your household is a person with a disability, they’d like to hear from you!:

BC Hydro is committed to identifying, removing, and preventing barriers across our services and programs, for our customers, job seekers and our employees. As reflected in our inclusion and diversity principles and corporate value, we include everyone. It is our intention to make everyone’s experience with BC Hydro inclusive and barrier-free. We’d like to know if you or anyone in your household encounters barriers when interacting with BC Hydro. Please let us know by going to this link and completing our short questionnaire: https://bchydro.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_80SpnyvINSw6hzU.

If you require our questionnaire in a different format, please contact us via email: Accessibility.Feedback@bchydro.com.

Our intention is to use this feedback in our forthcoming accessibility plan. This information will help make BC Hydro more accessible for everyone.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

If you are a person with a physical disability who is currently at risk due to the high temperatures in BC, Praxis Spinal Cord Institute and Technology for Living would like to help you as soon as they can. Through their pilot initiative: SCI Climate Futures, brought to you by BC Hydro, they are looking to reach out to individuals with disabilities who don’t have effective cooling in their homes. Their goal is to provide you with portable cooling devices, free of charge, to make sure you stay comfortable during heatwaves this summer.

Please sign up here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RZHPLXR

DABC has been informed that some landlords are trying to prematurely raise rents of their tenants who are PWD clients in anticipation of the shelter rate increase that will take effect in July 2023 for the August 2023 cheque issue.

DABC would like to remind PWD clients of their rights as a tenant: The maximum rent increase for 2023 is 2%, it is illegal for a landlord to increase a tenant’s rent above this. Landlords are also obligated to provide 3 month’s notice of a rent increase. Rent can only be increased once every 12 months.

If you encounter any issues with this and need more information, please reach out to the Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre for assistance and/or advocacy.