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SIGN NOW:  Online Petition to Save the Right Fit Program!

April 17, 2026 by DABC

Hand holding a smartphone with a call to action to sign an online petition to save the Right Fit program for accessible housing.

By signing and sharing this petition, you can help protect accessible housing for wheelchair users. 🤝 Demand urgent federal action to save the Right Fit Program, which is at immediate risk of shutting down due to a sudden loss of federal funding.

🔗 Link: https://c.org/N9X4MdVVLL

Without urgent action, this proven program will end—leaving hundreds of people with disabilities without the support they need to find safe, accessible housing.

Want to do more? Join our public rally in Vancouver on Wednesday, April 22nd: https://disabilityalliancebc.org/join-us-at-a-public-rally-to-save-the-right-fit-program/

Join us at a public rally to save The Right Fit Program!

April 16, 2026 by DABC

Person in wheelchair overlooking city skyline with urgent call to attend a rally (information in post) to save the Right Fit Program.

📢 Join us at a PUBLIC RALLY to save The Right Fit Program! 📢

The Right Fit is a vital program that matches wheelchair users with safe, accessible housing and it is at serious risk of ending. We need YOUR help to keep it going. Help us tell federal Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Gregor Robertson and other decision makers why this program is so important.

📆 When: Wednesday, April 22nd at 2 pm PT.

📍Where: Office of the Honourable Gregor Robertson (#360-3150 E 54th Ave, Vancouver).

Thank you for supporting us!

Media coverage and video: press conference to save the Right Fit Program

April 3, 2026 by DABC

A group of people attend the press conference to save the Right Fit Program

On April 2nd, 2026, DABC and our Right Fit Program partner Individualized Funding Resource Centre (IFRC) held a press conference at the Harmony Building in Vancouver to highlight the immensely negative impact of the closure of the Right Fit. The program’s closure due to the loss of federal funding leaves hundreds of wheelchair users without critical housing support. 

We would like to thank the media for attending and shining a light on this issue, as well as IFRC, MP Jenny Kwan, members of the community and Right Fit clients, for attending and speaking to the importance of the program in an urgent effort to save it.  

Watch the full video of the press conference: https://youtu.be/Fiiv9D0atzE

We have compiled media coverage: 

The Vancouver Sun 

https://vancouversun.com/news/ottawa-pulls-funding-to-program-matching-lower-mainland-wheelchair-users-with-accessible-homes 

CityNews 

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2026/04/02/feds-cut-funding-to-b-c-program-connecting-wheelchair-users-with-accessible-housing/  

CBC Radio 

BC Today:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.7152138 

On the Coast:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.7152635 

Global News

https://globalnews.ca/video/11759649/disability-alliance-bc-points-to-lack-of-federal-funding-in-closure-of-key-program

Unique Accommodations – BC Real Estate

https://youtu.be/DScjeV29OtQ?si=BirP7qxMDZAjbPif