Prostitution Alternatives Counselling Education
 P.O. box 73537-1014 Robson St.-Vancouver, B.C-V6E 1A7
Tel: (604) 872-7651 Cel: (604)786-5437 fax: (604) 872-7508

Toll free: 1-866-872-8751

Email: pacekids@vcn.bc.ca

 
The P.A.C.E. Housing Project
Phase I
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We invite you to join PACE, Urban Native Youth Society, Habitat for Humanity and Save The Children Canada (This agency will be disseminating this project to create a replicable model throughout Canada.) There is a growing list of others in the development and establishment of an innovative pilot project that will provide much needed housing for young women in the sex trade.
 
Project Goals:
  • To establish up to 20 units of cost-effective, long-term, safe, and affordable housing for young women in the survival sex trade over the next three years.
     
  • To create a new and innovative ‘made in Vancouver’ solution for opening self-sustaining long-term affordable housing for this population that can serve as a model for communities throughout Canada.
     
  • To establish and demonstrate the effectiveness of this model for community partnerships between the volunteer sector, non-profit service agencies, foundations, the private sector, Federal, Provincial, and Municipal representatives that are committed to finding long-term, cost-effective, solutions to the issue of young women in the survival sex trade.
     
Over the next three years PACE will recruit and train volunteers (with an emphasis on the involvement of skilled tradespersons) to work with young women in the survival sex trade to establish up to 20 units of safe affordable housing. The young women (under 24 years of age) will invest ‘sweat equity’ by renovating their own apartments in exchange for a rental lease. In exchange for continued involvement in the renovation of units for other young women they will also receive from $50 to $100 a month. The benefits of involvement in a peer culture in tandem with a below-shelter-allowance rental rate will extend far beyond the creation of affordable housing stock.
 
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