2221 Main St is City’s housing agency’s first of four affordable rental projects on $50 million of City land for working families and singles
City is implementing guaranteed response times to improve customer service
New motion from Mayor Robertson prioritizes housing for people who live, work in Vancouver by giving local residents first shot at buying pre-sale homes
Changes will deliver more duplexes, coach houses, laneways in Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland, Arbutus, Dunbar and Kerrisdale
Today’s budget from the BC government is a huge step forward in helping our most vulnerable residents. It tackles some of our most pressing challenges and makes significant investments in areas like mental health, homelessness and renters’ rights - areas that have been dramatically underfunded in recent years.
Building on yesterday’s announcement from the City of Vancouver to enable 72,000 new units of housing across the city, today staff presented plans and put forward bold new actions to address the housing crisis for the city’s most vulnerable populations. By increasing the City’s target for new units of social and supporting housing by 50 per cent, addressing the immediate needs of more than 600 homeless residents, and proposing strategies to enhance and maintain existing rental properties, the City is prioritizing action to create the right supply of housing, with the right supports.