Affordable Housing

1 candidate across 1 contest · Official site ↗

Commitments · 9

Increase fines for short-term rental violations substantially and pay informants one quarter of any resulting fine as a reward for compelling evidence leading to enforcement action.↗
Extend the same informant reward program to enforcement of the city's vacant home tax, with rewards potentially reaching tens of thousands of dollars.↗
Pass a bylaw extending Broadway Plan protections against rent increases during renoviction or demoviction to all Vancouver residents, and allowing displaced renters to transfer their right of return at their previous rental rate to a person of their choosing, with landlords unable to unreasonably withhold consent.↗
Require that a portion of units in newly upzoned low-rise buildings (townhouses, walkups, row houses) be dedicated to three-or-more-bedroom units.↗
Create a library of pre-approved building templates — including townhouses, row houses, and low-rise walk-ups — to reduce permit approval times.↗
Provide funding and incentives to create new co-operative rental housing.↗
Assign VAHA a lead role in constructing government rental housing, funded by the land appreciation tax and progressive property tax revenues.↗

Implement a land appreciation tax on the sale of land, applied only to value above the 2022 land assessment and only upon sale.↗
Implement a progressive property tax with an additional rate bracket applied to the most valuable 20% of single-family lots, with deferral available for owners aged 55 and over until the property is sold.↗

Stances · 3

SupportsVacancy control — limiting rent increases to inflation rate regardless of tenant turnover — applied to rental units.↗
SupportsUpzoning residential areas currently zoned RS-1 (single-family) to permit townhouses and low-rise buildings across the whole city, not only along major streets.↗
SupportsDelegate construction code and regulation compliance to qualified professionals (architects and engineers) rather than city review, once an area is zoned, to accelerate permitting.↗

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