Bilal Khan
Candidate for City Council · Bright Future Vancouver
Candidate commitments & stances
No commitment or stance published by Bilal Khan personally was found in the sources
reviewed. Most candidates campaign on their party's shared platform,
which appears below as the party record.
Shared party record · 12
Positions published by Bright Future Vancouver that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Bilal Khan's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.
Commitments · 12
Housing and land use 5
- Divert 20% of monthly rent into a protected Roots Equity Trust belonging to the renter.↗
- Approve or pipeline a first-term target of 2,000 Roots Project homes.↗
- Cap corporate bulk-buying of starter homes at 0% and establish a 60-day priority purchase window for local buyers.↗
- Require family-sized and pet-inclusive housing where public value assists in creating a project.↗
- Strengthen enforcement of the Empty Homes Tax, improve audits, reduce loopholes, and direct revenue toward housing people can live in.↗
City finances, taxation, and service delivery 3
- Apply a 2% surcharge on luxury properties valued at $5 million or more.↗
- Seek legal authority, likely involving the Province, to establish a dedicated marginal luxury infrastructure levy on residential properties assessed above $5 million, with revenue placed into a protected public fund.↗
- Include a deferral mechanism for eligible low-income seniors or fixed-income homeowners above the $5 million threshold, allowing the levy to be deferred until sale, transfer, or redevelopment.↗
Governance, consultation, and accountability 2
Transportation, streets, and public space 1
- Provide 100% free transit for Vancouver residents.↗
Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 1
- Ensure City Hall removes permitting, approval, inspection, and land-use coordination delays that affect school projects rather than adding to them.↗
Coverage — registry: the City of Vancouver's official candidate list. Party policy: extracted and shown above. Candidate-level policy: extracted where a candidate publishes their own; most candidates run on the party's shared record.