Housing and land use

237 commitments from 13 parties, grouped by who published them.

COPE 49

Make closing the vacancy loophole — which allows landlords to raise rent as much as they want between tenants — the first legislative priority.↗
Stop the sale of public land and use it instead for public benefits including public housing, built in every neighbourhood in partnership with provincial, federal, host nation, and non-profit partners.↗
Support, protect, and expand co-op housing; fight to renew leases for existing co-ops; prioritize building new co-ops on city-owned land; and advocate for other levels of government to make generational investments in co-op housing.↗
Support the development of community-led land trusts to protect land from speculative development and create permanently affordable housing.↗
Give tenants the legal right to collectively bargain through tenants unions.↗
Continue to increase the Empty Home Tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to empty new builds previously exempted, increase enforcement, and close loopholes.↗
Investigate and regulate REITs and other large institutional investors flowing capital into Vancouver's housing market.↗
Establish maximum indoor temperature standards for rental units and require landlords to keep buildings safe and habitable during heat waves.↗
Create a landlord registry to track rents and identify landlords who repeatedly violate the law.↗
Strengthen the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) and apply it city-wide and across all types of rental housing, requiring developers to coordinate redevelopments so displaced renters get access to a same-sized, accessible unit in their neighbourhood.↗
Leverage city-owned land for swing-site housing for displaced tenants, with that land later serving as co-op or public housing.↗
Mandate that land held by faith-based or other non-profit groups must offer right of first refusal to another non-market user before selling to the private sector.↗
Re-establish the renters office with new enforcement powers; if blocked, use the councillor's own office as a de facto renters office.↗
Build new shelter-rate housing and advocate for other cities, the province, and the federal government to participate in ending homelessness in BC.↗
Reverse the current ban on supportive housing in Vancouver.↗
Implement a right-of-first-refusal policy giving the city first priority to purchase existing apartment buildings going up for sale, in order to convert them into public housing.↗
Reinstate the Renters Office with new enforcement powers.↗
Establish a binding tenants rights by-law.↗
Build on the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) to protect tenants from displacement.↗
Use the Standards and Maintenance by-law to keep rental units safe.↗
Triple the Empty Homes Tax and close loopholes used to keep homes empty.↗
Fix the loophole in the Broadway Plan that denies hotel-project renters the right to return to the new building.↗
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.↗
Bring a motion to reconcile the pause on the Community Housing Fund with active housing targets, and seek to add it as an urgent motion at LMLGA.↗
Close the vacancy loophole that allows landlords to raise rent without limit between tenants, as the first legislative priority.↗
Stop demovictions by preventing demolition of dense, livable housing during the housing crisis.↗
Purchase apartment buildings and convert them into permanently affordable public housing and co-operatives.↗
Introduce a progressive property tax of 1% on assessed value over $5 million to fund ending homelessness.↗
Continue increasing the Empty Home Tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to empty new builds previously exempted, increase enforcement, and close EHT loopholes.↗
Create a landlord registry to track rents and enforce compliance against landlords who repeatedly break the law.↗
Restore the renters office with new enforcement powers, using the councillor's own office as a de facto renters office if Council blocks restoration.↗
Leverage city-owned land to provide swing-site housing for displaced tenants, later usable as co-op or public housing.↗
Finance the construction of permanently affordable public housing through taxes on wealth, mansions, and empty lots, bonds, and advocacy to senior governments.↗
Place a penalty on land-banking for profit to incentivize development without displacement and eliminate vacant lots.↗
Tax non-resident investors to fund affordable housing for Vancouver residents.↗
Establish a Landlord Registry to track landlord activity and impose meaningful penalties for profit-driven violations of tenant law.↗
Protect tenants' right to organize into unions and require landlords to bargain with tenant unions in good faith.↗
Enshrine tenant rights in strong Vancouver bylaws or laws rather than relying on weak policies.↗
Restore the Renters Office, enforce it to act against non-compliant landlords, pursue the strongest tenant protections in Canada, perform repairs on neglected apartments and bill landlords, and enable conversion of rental apartments to co-ops.↗
Preserve, leverage, and expand Vancouver's public lands for public benefit, and implement a city-wide public land trust for democratic community control.↗
Use city-owned land as swing-site housing for displaced tenants, with sites later serving as co-op or public housing.↗
Finance construction of permanently affordable public housing through taxes on wealth, mansions, and empty lots, bonds, and advocacy to senior governments.↗
Place a penalty on land-banking for profit to incentivize development without displacement on vacant lots.↗
Tax non-resident investors to fund affordable housing for Vancouver residents.↗
Establish a Landlord Registry to track landlord activity and impose penalties for wrongdoing for profit.↗
Protect tenants' right to organize into unions and require landlords to bargain with tenant unions in good faith.↗
Enshrine tenant rights in Vancouver law rather than weak policies such as the TRPP.↗
Preserve, leverage, and expand Vancouver's public lands for public benefit and implement a city-wide public land trust for democratic community control.↗

Green Party of Vancouver 41

Work with the Province to resolve housing targets that are not delivering amenities such as schools for growing families.↗↗
Partner with non-profits and senior governments to deliver co-op, social, and supportive housing in every neighbourhood, and fast-track zoning and permitting for affordable housing.↗↗
Update Vancouver's Standards of Maintenance By-law to require timely remediation of mold, moisture, water damage, and indoor air quality issues, while strengthening enforcement and tenant protections.↗↗
Reverse the ban on supportive housing and use occupancy permit requirements to ensure housing is adequately staffed and serviced for good living conditions and community relations.↗↗
Support a wider variety of housing types in all neighbourhoods including low-rise apartments (4–6 storeys), Single Egress Staircase designs, rowhomes, townhomes, and infill, and permit faster and more affordable construction including prefab, modular, and wood frame.↗↗↗
Support fine-grained development patterns with narrow storefronts, small commercial spaces, and flexible mixed-use zoning that allows homes, shops, studios, offices, and services to coexist, including active ground floors, small commercial frontages, and business uses on upper storeys.↗
Reduce regulatory complexity on larger multi-unit residential buildings while retaining and innovating within the Vancouver Building By-law, using Vancouver's statutory powers for climate, mechanical, built form, mass timber, decarbonization, egress, elevators, patios, and FSR exemptions.↗↗
Resolve departmental silos that add time and cost to building approvals and make construction approvals more efficient.↗↗
Offer city-approved pre-approved housing designs for homes and rental buildings to reduce permitting time and costs, explore 'kit' designs (modular or prefab), and enable targeted federal investment through Build Canada Homes with enhanced zoning and permits for pre-approved designs.↗↗↗
Expedite planning and lease renewals for co-ops on city-owned land such as South False Creek, with intention to preserve community mix, long-term affordability, and livability, and limit Capital Expenditure cost formulas that act as affordability barriers to lease renewal.↗↗
Reverse council policy permitting micro-suites as small as 250 sq ft including kitchen and bathroom.↗↗
Protect existing affordable housing and tenants through pace-of-change measures, enforce by-laws to prevent empty buildings, levy taxes on vacant buildings, and time-limit enactment-to-construction after rezonings.↗↗
Establish real affordability targets defined as 30% of median household income, replacing the current market-rent-based metric.↗↗
Ensure City of Vancouver policies are informed by the right to safe, adequate, and affordable homes.↗↗
Create a new city role focused on housing partnerships and policies to deliver non-market and supportive housing, modelled on the early 2000s Housing Centre.↗↗
Work with the province to close Empty Homes Tax loopholes that allow empty apartment buildings, and audit compliance and evasion rates ahead of incremental rate increases.↗↗
Create a Vancouver Public Housing Bond under Vancouver Charter authority, enabling retail and institutional investors to finance city-owned affordable housing in exchange for a modest, predictable return.↗↗
Strengthen and enforce the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy on redevelopment of rental stock city-wide, including secondary-market rentals, with fair compensation, meaningful relocation support, and strong displacement protections.↗↗
Require large developments to provide affordable homes on-site or contribute land, units, or cash toward city-owned and non-profit affordable housing construction.↗↗
Prioritize fee and levy reductions and fast-tracked permitting for truly affordable housing projects.↗↗
Create a Rental Housing Acquisition and Preservation program with a dedicated rapid acquisition fund and partnerships to preserve at-risk rental housing before it is lost to speculation or redevelopment.↗↗↗
Urge replacement of the BC Community Housing Fund, lobby for return of Canada's RRAP, and lobby the federal government for $2 billion in funding for very-low-to-low-income homes.↗
Develop a toolkit with relevant partners and communities to fast-track delivery of affordable and non-profit housing on non-market lands.↗↗
Remove barriers to faith, community, and non-profit housing development.↗
Restore Vancouver's Renter's Office as a dedicated service for tenants, with functions including navigating City processes, tracking rental housing loss and displacement, maintaining a landlord registry, linking fair tenant practices to rental incentives, improving coordination with tenant advocates, and providing better data to staff and Council.↗↗↗↗↗
Fund the Renter's Office through the Empty Homes Tax, including underwriting security deposits and supporting access to stable rental accommodation.↗
Use taxpayer-owned city land for affordable housing, co-ops, and community land trusts.↗↗
Create more affordable housing options including shared housing, cohousing, rental homes, and family-oriented apartments.↗↗
Develop proactive, comprehensive strategies to prevent, reduce, and ultimately eliminate homelessness.↗↗
Direct City staff to report back on amendments to Vancouver's Licence By-law that would create business licence conditions for landlords operating multiple rental units, tie renewal to compliance with City standards and provincial tenancy law, require ownership and property management disclosure, mandate visible posting of landlord licence and contact information, enable fines or licence suspension or revocation for repeated violations, target unlawful short-term rental activity in multi-tenant buildings, and leverage new provincial authority for stronger municipal penalties.↗
Deliver faster development approvals, more housing choices, and Canadian-built construction.↗
Establish a Vancouver Affordability Index tracking real household costs against local incomes to guide housing, transportation, taxation, and planning decisions.↗
Pursue office-to-housing conversions and a more diverse, mixed-use downtown.↗
Plan city land for long-term public benefit rather than maximizing sale price.↗
Apply permit requirements and public benefit standards to vacant land used informally as parks.↗
Develop rapid shelter villages with private cabins and on-site supports as a transitional bridge to permanent housing.↗
Advocate to senior governments to reverse the supportive housing ban and secure federal and provincial funding.↗
Champion Canadian procurement and employment requirements for major developments, while prioritizing mass timber and wood-frame construction to support B.C. forestry industry and jobs.↗↗
Support updates to the Vancouver Building By-law to enable innovative solutions including mass timber, decarbonization, egress and elevators, patios, and FSR exemptions.↗
Preserve existing affordable homes where feasible through partnerships with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and BC Retrofit Accelerator to fund climate-smart retrofits and support local green jobs.↗
Set housing affordability targets at 30 per cent of median household income rather than market rent.↗

TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 28

Repeal the Official Development Plan, Vancouver Plan, Broadway Plan, Jericho Lands ODP, and Rupert & Renfrew Plan if a TEAM majority council is elected.↗↗↗↗↗
Repeal the Villages Plan if it is adopted before the end of the current council term.↗↗
Replace the Official Development Plan with a new Respect for Neighbourhoods plan that gives residents a direct role in community planning.↗
Require multiplexes to meet neighbourhood-specific form rules, including reduced maximum units based on lot size, minimum onsite parking of approximately one stall per unit, reconsidered setbacks to protect trees and streetscape, and design guidelines for local fit.↗↗↗
Restore and retain existing RT zoning that promotes retention of character houses with multifamily conversions and infill, ensuring character-house retention options remain viable in multiplex zones.↗
Replace the Official Development Plan with a 'Respect for Neighbourhoods Plan' addressing concerns including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert & Renfrew, and Villages Plans.↗
Protect existing affordable rental housing from demolition.↗
Provide a broad mix of housing types — including co-ops, co-housing, secondary suites, multiple conversion dwellings, infill, laneways, duplexes, multiplexes, townhouses, and apartments — that fit within local built-form scale and context.↗
Withdraw current rental programs that do not create meaningful affordability, are out-of-scale with surrounding neighbourhoods, and inflate surrounding land values — specifically the Moderate Income Rental Pilot Program (MIRPP) and the Secured Rental Policy.↗
Protect the existing stock of affordable rental buildings by reversing current policies that target older, more affordable rental buildings for redevelopment.↗
Provide incentives to landlords to maintain rental properties rather than upzoning them for demolition.↗
Avoid excessive new housing development in areas where local school capacity is at full and student commuting would be required.↗
Establish a renters office to support renters navigating development rules and protections, distinct from provincial roles.↗↗
Improve renter supports and protections under municipal jurisdiction.↗
Retain and upgrade existing co-ops, ensure they retain subsidies to remain viable, working with provincial and federal supports.↗↗
Use public resources and land to prioritize affordable rentals rather than market rentals.↗
Prioritize the kinds of affordable rental housing most needed, such as larger ground-oriented units for families.↗↗
Rethink the Jericho Lands development plan to favour more ground-oriented and low- to mid-rise building forms.↗
Make it easier to retain heritage and character buildings through a more flexible development and permit process, zoning incentives for retention, disincentives for demolition, and allowing multiple secondary suites or infill development through the Secondary Suite Program.↗
Support new incentives for retention and conservation of heritage resources and character buildings through tax and fee exemptions, and prioritize heritage retention as a desirable development option.↗
Reverse Council's decision and restore off-street parking minimums for all new construction.↗
Restore neighbourhood-based community planning across Vancouver.↗
End mass rezonings if a majority council is achieved.↗
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.↗
Pursue and evaluate the 14 directions proposed in the 'New Directions for Prioritizing Middle-Income Secure Affordable Housing' paper if a majority is elected.↗
Ensure the Villages Plan remains defeated after the election and is not revived.↗
With a TEAM majority on City Council, strengthen tenant relocation protections and put the Broadway Plan and the city-wide Official Development Plan on hold.↗

OneCity Vancouver 23

Pass the Social Housing Initiative as one of the first motions after taking office.↗↗
Build 4,000 affordable homes on city land, protect renters in every neighbourhood, and rezone Vancouver to enable more housing.↗
Establish a city-run 'People's Builder' to construct 4,000 affordable family homes on city-owned land, with the city guaranteeing loans, drawing in federal funding, and recycling project revenue into subsequent projects.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
Enact a Community Land Trust Support Strategy giving non-profits the first right to purchase affordable buildings and land when they come up for sale.↗↗↗↗↗
Legalize 25-foot lots (reduced from 33 ft), reduce setbacks to five feet, permit courtyard buildings between four-storey structures, legalize single-stair buildings across Vancouver, allow four-floor buildings with corner stores citywide, and allow six-floor buildings with services near city centres.↗↗↗↗↗
Fix and complete the Vancouver Plan.↗↗
Expand the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) citywide and reduce the residency period required to qualify for protections from one year to six months.↗↗↗↗↗
Require developers to compensate tenants when delayed construction postpones their move-in date.↗↗↗↗↗
End the prohibition on pets in city-owned housing and advocate to the Province to eliminate blanket no-pet clauses.↗↗↗↗
Lift the freeze on approvals for net-new supportive housing.↗↗↗↗
Prohibit landlords from preventing tenants from using portable air conditioning units, with a $1,000 fine for non-compliance, subject to exemptions for buildings with electrical, structural, or safety constraints.↗
Pursue Housing First as the foundational pillar of the public safety response.↗↗↗↗
Prioritize securing funding with senior governments to remove the viaducts and redevelop Hogan's Alley, delivering housing, culturally appropriate public spaces, and community benefits, led by the community.↗↗↗↗
Adopt permissive zoning instead of required upzoning for four- to six-storey housing and ground-and-second-storey commercial space, letting neighbourhoods choose where it applies rather than mandating uniform design.↗
Re-establish and fund a Renters' Office with staff to defend renters, work with legal advocates, and proactively monitor landlords and developers for rule compliance.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
End Vancouver's apartment ban and allow 4-storey buildings and corner stores in every neighbourhood, and 6-storey buildings near city centres and where local conditions support it.↗↗↗↗↗
Allow mid-size apartments near services and high-streets such as Main Street and 4th Avenue.↗↗↗
Create a fund to acquire and protect affordable housing from redevelopment to market rents.↗↗↗
Strengthen protections for low-income seniors and renters.↗
Keep the Kingsgate Mall land in public ownership and redevelop it as a Community Commons in partnership with Host Nations and the OneCity Park Board and Council teams, including a new public school, community centre, licensed public/non-profit/Indigenous childcare (including before- and after-school care), affordable and subsidized rental housing, and a pool in Mount Pleasant.↗
Protect renters in every neighbourhood.↗
Pair new supportive housing approvals with a public engagement process supported by a new Office of Community Engagement.↗
End the prohibition on pets in city-owned housing.↗↗

Vancouver Liberals 23

Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code in its place.↗↗↗↗↗↗
Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and merge housing departments to deliver faster and cheaper housing construction.↗
On day one, reverse the ban on all types of new supportive housing construction in the city.↗
Adopt the BC Building Code for Vancouver building approvals to reduce cost and delay, while retaining the city's zero-carbon and energy standards; heritage building protections and enforcement are unaffected.↗↗↗
Deliver the Northeast False Creek Plan — including homes across all incomes, a larger waterfront park, and jobs — once the viaducts are removed, with transit, childcare, and community services in place from the start.↗
Consolidate twelve separate housing-approval departments into a single permitting path with one point of contact.↗↗↗
Review every bylaw and policy applying to new construction in the first year, resolve contradictions, repeal outdated rules, consolidate the remainder into one rulebook, and require new rules to quantify their cost and time impact.↗
Reform development cost charges with phased rates, clear exemptions for priority and non-market housing, and disciplined inflation indexing; require community amenity contributions to be paid in cash and published for every rezoning.↗
Lift the City's pause on new supportive housing and work with the Province to build well-staffed homes with health and social supports, with every new site operator held to clear, enforceable standards.↗
Work alongside neighbouring municipalities so supportive housing is available across the region, close to where people have family and community.↗
Create a community land trust to hold city-owned land so it cannot be sold, dedicated to affordable and co-op homes, sports and recreation, childcare, and community space.↗
Extend every co-op and non-profit lease on City land immediately with automatic renewals, back repairs with City financing, open more City land for co-op and non-market homes, and press federal and provincial governments to fund deeply affordable housing.↗
Restore the renters' office and protect tenants from renoviction and unfair eviction during City-led major redevelopment projects such as the Broadway Plan.↗
Undo the 'Uplifting the Downtown Eastside' changes that weakened protections for lowest-income residents, and maintain a strong share of new social housing at the shelter rate backed by City funding.↗
Make it easier for seniors to add a suite or laneway home, require more accessible units in new buildings, work with the Province on seniors' and assisted living in every neighbourhood, and partner with community groups on housing for queer seniors, Chinatown and immigrant seniors, and Indigenous Elders.↗
Crack down on neglect of heritage buildings, expand preservation incentives, and require relocation or deconstruction before demolition of older homes with an early removal permit system.↗
Reserve a share of below-market homes in new developer-required projects for firefighters, paramedics, nurses, and teachers, with the share set by staffing needs for Vancouver's schools, hospitals, and fire halls.↗
Allow churches, co-ops, and non-profits to build non-market and affordable housing on their land without a rezoning.↗
Allow small-scale shops, cafes, and restaurants in all residentially-zoned areas.↗
Press the provincial and federal governments for clear rules ensuring data centres are sited where land, power, and water can support them, and that they pay their full share of energy and water costs — not on land suitable for homes.↗
Press the Province to speed up investment in water, sewer, clean energy, and electrical capacity so new homes and businesses are not delayed waiting for utility hookups.↗
Require accountability agreements for new supportive housing or shelter sites in Vancouver, making the operator's name, contract, staffing levels, and service standards enforceable by the City.↗
End per-site co-op lease negotiations and replace them with a single blanket 25-year lease agreement covering all housing co-operatives on city-owned land, within the first 100 days of taking office.↗↗

Vote Vancouver 19

Support housing that connects residents with mental health and addiction services, case management, and employment and training services.↗
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.↗↗
Combine supportive housing with mental health and addiction services, childcare, and training and employment support, leveraging provincial and federal funding.↗
Build housing to keep unhoused people connected to their communities, create jobs, and provide stability.↗
Reverse the ban on supportive housing to enable construction of new homes connected with mental health services, addiction supports, social work, and employment and training opportunities.↗
Replace existing SROs with dignified, self-contained, purpose-built housing options while allowing existing facilities to continue operating until reasonable alternatives are available.↗↗
Work with community land trusts and community groups to keep public land in community ownership, build co-operative housing, and ensure housing remains affordable.↗↗↗
Support the Downtown Eastside through the Community Land Trust and the SRO Collaborative to keep housing affordable, in line with the Uplift the DTES motion.↗
Work with the False Creek South Community Housing Trust to review City leases and develop a solution to maintain community and co-operative housing long-term.↗
Continue to support societies such as Hogan's Alley in establishing affordable community housing with integrated services and community centres through land trusts.↗
Hold landlords to the City's maintenance standards and take action when buildings fall into serious disrepair, particularly where life-safety risks threaten residents' ability to remain safely housed.↗
Use city land, partnerships, and resources to build more affordable housing that includes childcare and create complete communities.↗↗
Identify underused or unused City-owned sites and use them to build affordable housing, with five parcels chosen, named, and announced with a timeline within one month of entering City Hall.↗
Use innovative programs like DASH (Digitally Accelerated Standardized Housing) to build homes faster with pre-approved models and sustainable materials, especially for modular housing developments.↗
When a faith organization chooses to redevelop rather than sell, partner with them to redevelop their land for housing, community services, and childcare while keeping the land in the organization's ownership.↗↗
Partner with Community Land Trusts to convert vacant buildings suitable for housing and community spaces into community-owned housing.↗
Leverage the Vancouver Affordable Housing Endowment Fund, combined with City land, to build deeply affordable housing directly, piloting projects targeting 30% of units as deeply affordable under an affordable housing asset class model.↗↗
Reduce market-rate housing costs by building deeply affordable housing on public land instead of relying on the private market to deliver below-market rate housing.↗

ABC Vancouver 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.↗

Annette Reilly 12

Prioritize co-op, non-profit, social, and supportive housing on City-owned land.↗
Support predictable housing growth near transit and services.↗
Reverse the ban on no net new supportive housing.↗
Restore Vancouver's Renter's Office.↗
Strengthen tenant relocation and right-of-return protections.↗
Create a rapid acquisition fund to preserve existing affordable rental housing.↗
Plan housing growth alongside schools, childcare, transit, and community amenities.↗
Hold landlords accountable for healthy housing standards.↗
Speed up permitting for genuinely affordable housing.↗
Expand missing-middle housing options.↗
Use pre-approved designs to reduce delays and construction costs for housing.↗
Set affordability targets based on household incomes rather than market rents.↗

Bright Future Vancouver 9

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, pet-inclusive housing where public value contributes to a project.↗↗↗
Strengthen enforcement and audits of the Empty Homes Tax, reduce loopholes, and ensure revenue supports housing people can live in.↗
On selected city-owned, city-partnered, or density-bonus project homes, direct 20% of monthly rent into a protected Roots Equity Trust held for each renter's future housing security.↗↗↗
Provide local buyers a 60-day priority window on Roots Project homes before broader market sale.↗
Require 25% of units in qualifying projects to be family-sized housing.↗
Create a Permanent Affordable Rental Stream within the Roots Project for residents who prefer secure rental over ownership.↗
Incorporate mortgage-readiness and financial planning support into the Roots Project for participating renters.↗

TrueBlue Vancouver 8

Protect single-family and low-density neighbourhoods by requiring binding local input on development proposals, ensuring infrastructure exists before adding density, and cutting municipal permit delays.↗
Reduce municipal fees, permitting delays, and unnecessary regulations that increase home-building costs, fast-track permits that meet existing rules, and encourage private-sector housing construction.↗
Enforce basic health, fire, and building-safety standards while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden on responsible property owners, with enforcement focused on genuinely unsafe buildings.↗
Streamline permits for accessibility upgrades, secondary suites, seniors' housing, and projects for residents with disabilities, reducing unnecessary approval delays.↗
Prioritize temporary and supportive housing for people in need while emphasizing treatment, employment, recovery, and pathways toward independent housing.↗
Make it faster and cheaper for private builders and property owners to create legal rental units, and encourage secondary suites and purpose-built rentals while protecting tenant and landlord rights.↗
Enforce total local sovereignty over zoning decisions, reject provincial blanket-densification mandates, give locals binding input on development proposals, ensure infrastructure exists before adding density, and cut municipal permit delays.↗
Prioritize existing residents for housing and public services, and advocate to senior governments to reduce immigration when population growth exceeds housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and community capacity.↗

Affordable Housing 7

Substantially increase fines for short-term rental operators who violate city rules, and award one quarter of any resulting fine to individuals who bring compelling evidence that leads to the fine being issued.↗
Implement vacancy control so that rent on a unit can only be raised by the rate of inflation regardless of tenant turnover.↗↗
Upzone single-family areas citywide to allow townhouses and low-rise buildings, not only along major streets.↗
Allow and require a portion of new low-rise residential buildings (townhouses, walk-ups, row houses) to include units with three or more bedrooms.↗
Create a library of pre-approved building templates (townhouses, row houses, low-rise walk-ups) to accelerate permit approvals.↗
Provide funding and incentives to create new co-operative rental housing.↗
Assign the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA) a lead role in constructing government rental housing, funded by the land appreciation tax and progressive property tax.↗

John Jones 2

Push for stronger tenant rights, cheaper legal suites, and more co-op and social housing.↗
Support planning that keeps new development in character with the neighbourhood, protects active storefronts and cultural spaces, and gives residents meaningful input before major changes are approved.↗

Lucy Maloney 2

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.↗