Ken Sim
Candidate for Mayor · ABC Vancouver Not elected
Candidate commitments & stances
No personal commitment or stance has been extracted for Ken Sim yet.
The party's shared record appears below.
Shared party record · 68
Positions published by ABC Vancouver that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Ken Sim's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.
Commitments · 60
Housing and land use 14
- Continue reducing red tape, delays, and costs at City Hall to bring more housing to market and increase vacancy rates.↗
- Launch an Affordability Action Plan within the first 100 days.↗
- Support purpose-built rental housing, market entry housing, co-ops, and other innovative housing forms to create more choices at different price points.↗
- Use incentives that lower the cost of building housing without transferring those costs to Vancouver taxpayers.↗
- Continue working with provincial and federal governments to secure Vancouver's fair share of funding for social and middle-income housing.↗
- Continue driving toward a 3-3-3-1 permitting framework while maintaining publicly reported service standards for housing approvals.↗
- Expand combined development/building permits, digital approvals, and pre-approved designs, and identify additional permit categories suitable for accelerated or automated review.↗
- Build on multiplex reforms to make townhomes, rowhouses, multiplexes, and family-sized apartments easier to build across the city.↗
- Expand the City's catalogue of pre-approved housing designs, including family-oriented fourplexes and sixplexes.↗
- Review regulations that make three-bedroom and family-sized homes disproportionately expensive to build.↗
- Give the Vancouver Housing Development Office a strengthened mandate to identify underused City-owned properties that can support housing, using long-term leases and partnerships to create market rental, strata, and co-op housing while retaining public land ownership.↗
- Explore a temporary Start Building Vancouver program that reduces or defers eligible City fees for approved housing projects that begin construction within a defined period, with enhanced incentives possible for purpose-built rental, family-sized, and below-market homes.↗
- Accelerate implementation of housing around rapid transit, major corridors, and neighbourhood villages to allow more residents to live within walking distance of shops, childcare, parks, schools, and transit.↗
- Pursue partnerships with employers, unions, non-profits, and senior governments to create housing for essential workers, leveraging City land and additional density where appropriate to make projects financially viable.↗
Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 9
- Begin an audit and select the next five community centres for restoration, within the first 100 days.↗↗
- Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50-metre pool, at cost.↗
- Rebuild or revamp 5 community centres for $400 million.↗↗
- Deliver the River District Community Centre.↗
- Revamp and invest in recreational facilities, including more pools, rinks, and ice time.↗
- Create a playground improvement fund.↗
- Rebuild and renew community centres across Vancouver.↗
- Provide free swimming lessons for levels 1–3.↗↗↗
- Confirm two new swimming pools at Sunset Park and Marpole Community Centre.↗
Social policy, health, and community services 6
- Establish a "Three Strikes and You're Out" accountability framework for supportive housing operators, with escalating enforcement up to business licence revocation after three qualifying strikes.↗
- Deliver the Vancouver Agenda to provincial and federal governments and work alongside all levels of government to secure involuntary care beds in Vancouver and a secure facility at St. Paul's or another site, within the first 100 days.↗
- Double the City's current childcare spaces commitment to 4,000 new spaces.↗
- Expand after-school programming.↗
- Advocate for 100 or more involuntary care beds in Vancouver.↗
- Require non-profit oversight and a good neighbour agreement for all public housing with street disorder issues.↗
Economic development and local business 6
- Implement a One-Stop Business Desk to streamline support for businesses within the first 100 days.↗
- Allow restaurants and bars to stay open later.↗
- Revitalize Granville Street and its pedestrian zone and continue efforts to bring people downtown.↗
- Establish a new era of cooperation between the City and major events, along with a new funding model for those events.↗
- Help restaurants and bars operate with later hours.↗
- Create a vibrant entertainment district and downtown core.↗
City finances, taxation, and service delivery 6
- Audit City Hall's core services to identify redundancies, protect taxpayers, and publicly share the audit results, within the first 100 days.↗
- Deliver a property tax freeze for residents and businesses.↗
- Ensure taxpayer dollars are spent only on municipal responsibilities.↗
- Freeze property taxes in 2026 and 2027.↗↗
- Keep future property tax increases tied to inflation.↗
- Pass a 0% property-tax increase for the 2027 budget.↗
Public safety and emergency services 6
- Remove dangerous encampments from parks and public spaces.↗
- Continue investing in police and mental health nurses.↗
- Ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces.↗
- Give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs.↗
- Mandate provincial drug consumption sites be located away from schools and parks.↗
- Put two public-safety plebiscite questions on the October 2026 ballot.↗↗↗
Governance, consultation, and accountability 5
- Start a monthly "ask me anything" session with the Mayor, including relevant Council and City representatives, to ensure transparency at City Hall.↗
- Launch and implement a Good Neighbour Policy within the first 100 days.↗
- Make City Hall permitting faster and easier.↗
- Create a strict performance-based action committee to set better metrics for families.↗
- Expand department head meetings (VANSTAT) to weekly check-ins.↗
Transportation, streets, and public space 4
Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 3
Stances · 8
- SupportsProvincial policy prohibiting public hard-drug use where shelter and treatment options exist, paired with police seizure tools and restrictions on overdose-prevention site locations.↗↗
- SupportsPrime Minister Carney's decision to designate the Pacific Link Pipeline a project of national interest, and the provincial government advancing it.↗
- SupportsProvincial multi-year, fully funded replacement program for aging SROs with self-contained units including private bathrooms and kitchens, using sustained BC Housing capital funding.↗
- SupportsProvincial school-tax revenue collected in Vancouver being returned to Vancouver students.↗
- SupportsFull provincial funding for prosecutors, courts, and justice-system resources to implement tougher federal bail and sentencing laws and address repeat crime.↗
- SupportsA comprehensive federal port-security strategy to combat organized crime, movement of illicit goods, and export of stolen vehicles through B.C. ports.↗
- SupportsProvincial stable multi-year childcare funding model tied to population growth, housing growth, and local demand, replacing unpredictable project-by-project funding.↗
- SupportsA new secure care facility for Vancouver with 100-plus involuntary care beds.↗
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