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"Talk Housing With Us" Stakeholder Workshop

The City of Vancouver’s core mission is “to create a great city of communities which cares about its people, its environment and the opportunities to live, work and prosper.” Challenges with housing affordability and steadily increasing homelessness pose significant barriers to achieving this mission. In response, the City has developed a draft Housing and Homelessness Strategy with the goal of ending street homelessness by 2015 and providing affordable housing choices to all citizens, particularly those with the lowest incomes and those key workers required to drive a healthy and green economy. The draft Strategy includes four broad directions:

City to provide land for 1200 units of supportive housing (12 – 15 sites);
Ensure local homeless are housed locally; new sites to reflect location of homeless;
Tailor zoning approaches and conditions to meet local housing needs and opportunities; and
Integrate successful strategies for rental inventory into current neighbourhood planning initiatives.

We are undertaking a public and stakeholder engagement process over the next few months to gather input on the draft strategies. A one-day workshop took place on April 27. This workshop provided input on the draft strategies listed below:

What does the City need to keep doing or do differently?
Where are the challenges and gaps?
What strategies need to be developed to help mobilize partners?

The results of the workshop, in addition to other input from the public engagement process, will be used to produce a report for Council which will include our 3-5 year strategy and our vision for housing in the City of Vancouver for 2020.

A video on the challenges of homelessness was presented at the Workshop. Click on the link below to view:

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Questions or Comments? E-mail: housing.policy@vancouver.ca