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Richard talks about poverty and hope [1]

https://vimeo.com/3670615 [2]

Richard receives disability benefits through British Columbia's welfare program. Disability benefits are very low (less than $1000 a month in a city where the average one bedroom apartment costs that much). Richard lived on the streets for many years while he waited to get into social housing -- he moved into his own home just a few months after this video was made. This video is part of a slideshow about welfare (or social assistance) and poverty in British Columbia, Canada. Watch the full slideshow here [3].

Video by Goh Iromoto.

March 27, 2009
Video [4]
Offices: 
BC Office [5]
Issue: 
Housing and homelessness [6]
Inequality and poverty [7]
Projects: 
Economic Security Project (BC) [8]

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[1] https://policyalternatives.ca/multimedia/richard-talks-about-poverty-and-hope [2] https://vimeo.com/3670615 [3] http://www.policyalternatives.ca/multimedia/poverty-amid-plenty [4] https://policyalternatives.ca/taxonomy/term/47 [5] https://policyalternatives.ca/offices/bc [6] https://policyalternatives.ca/issues/housing-and-homelessness [7] https://policyalternatives.ca/issues/inequality-and-poverty [8] https://policyalternatives.ca/projects/economic-security-project-aaaaa