Housing and land use

59 commitments from 10 parties, grouped by who published them.

Fix the loophole in the Broadway Plan that denies right-to-return protections to renters displaced by hotel projects.↗
Bring a motion asking staff to identify city-owned land within 5 km of hospitals and to partner with senior levels of government to build affordable workforce housing for healthcare workers.↗
Negotiate, secure, and build 20,000 or more units of truly affordable homes in Vancouver, as a stated mayoral policy priority of COPE's candidate.↗
Bring a motion to reconcile the Community Housing Fund pause with active housing targets, and seek to add it as an urgent motion at LMLGA.↗
Bring forward a motion to repeal the pause on supportive housing.↗
Close the vacancy loophole that allows landlords to raise rent without limit between tenants.↗
Stop demovictions of affordable dense housing.↗
Purchase apartments and convert them into permanently affordable public housing and co-operatives.↗
Apply a progressive 1% property tax on property values over $5 million to fund ending homelessness.↗
Continue increasing the Empty Home Tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to exempt new builds, increase enforcement, and close loopholes.↗
Create a landlord registry to track rents and enforce compliance with rental laws.↗
Restore a renters office with new enforcement powers, using the councillor's own office as a substitute if blocked.↗

Stop demoviction by protecting older rental buildings from demolition.↗
Establish a renters office.↗
Reverse Council's decision and restore off-street parking minimums for all new construction.↗
End mass rezonings if a majority council is achieved.↗
Repeal the Official Development Plan, Vancouver Plan, Broadway Plan, Jericho Lands ODP, Rupert & Renfrew Plan, and the Villages Plan.↗↗
Revisit the previous neighbourhood plans that were discarded upon adoption of the 2022 Vancouver Plan.↗
Ensure that growth occurs within infrastructure capacity, with infrastructure planned in parallel with growth.↗
Plan within the local context, complementing neighbourhood character and prioritizing housing types that residents need.↗
Prioritize affordable housing types such as co-ops and other models, especially larger units for families.↗↗
Require multiplexes to conform to neighbourhood-specific form restrictions, which may include reduced maximum unit counts based on lot size and access, minimum onsite parking, reconsidered setbacks, and design guidelines for streetscape context.↗

Work with community land trusts and community organizations to build more co-op and community housing while keeping public land in community ownership.↗
Support housing that connects residents with mental health and addiction services, case management, and employment and training services.↗
Simplify and speed up the development approval process so housing can be built sooner.↗
Use public land to build permanently affordable homes for middle-income earners, with not-for-profit childcare included in new developments.↗
Make it easier to redevelop qualifying faith-based community sites into mixed-use communities with new homes.↗
Better leverage the Affordable Housing Endowment Fund and pair it with City land to build affordable homes.↗
Support new approaches to seniors housing, including Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, to help people age in their communities.↗
Ensure new public housing is planned alongside childcare, schools, public spaces, healthcare, and community services.↗
Work to replace unsafe SROs with affordable supportive housing.↗

Bring forward a motion at the July 15, 2026 Council meeting directing staff to report back on re-establishing a dedicated Renter's Office.↗↗↗
Focus on lowering everyday costs, delivering more affordable homes, and protecting renters.↗
Introduce a motion at City Council to track the pace of demovictions, renovictions, and renter displacement in the Broadway Plan area by monitoring building permits, demolition permits, and vacancy rates.↗
Call on Council to commit to protecting Vancouver's existing affordable rental stock.↗
Continue to fight for tenants' rights and homes in Vancouver.↗
Protect renters and ensure sufficient affordable housing in the city.↗
End renovictions.↗
Create more housing options including shared housing, cohousing, rental homes, and family-oriented affordable apartments.↗

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.↗

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.↗

Require every new supportive housing project in Vancouver to include 24-hour public bathrooms and showers accessible to unhoused people.↗
Reverse the ban on new supportive housing construction from day one of government.↗
Remove the Vancouver Building Code and align the city with provincial building code standards to simplify housing construction, and consolidate twelve housing-approval departments into one.↗

Move, as a first motion on Council, to re-establish the Vancouver Renter Office as a Tenant Advocacy Office and extend Broadway Plan tenant protections city-wide.↗
Give the new Tenant Advocacy Office an enforcement mandate covering proactive developer compliance monitoring, remedies during the development process, and penalties.↗

Pass the Social Housing Initiative as one of the first motions after taking office.↗
Build 4,000 affordable homes using a public entity called the People's Builder.↗

Cut unnecessary fees, red tape, and permit delays to make housing easier and less expensive to build.↗