When the Vancouver City Council is in session, Abundant Housing Vancouver will be providing a breakdown of important public hearings, housing related motions and other housing business. 

Highlights:

2538 Birch Street

243 rental homes, with 53 moderate income rentals (20% of the floor area), located two blocks from the future Broadway & Granville Skytrain Station and a short walk to Vancouver General Hospital. This project adds needed rental and moderate income housing near a key employment center in the city.

This project is facing an organized opposition, your support is needed to get these needed moderate income rentals built. Please write in support or request to speak at the July 9th public hearing to tell council to approve affordable rental housing.

1111-1123 Kingsway

Part of the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP), this project proposes to bring 131 rental homes to Kensington-Cedar Cottage area at the intersection of Kingsway and Glen Drive. 20% of homes (by floor area) will be permanently affordable to moderate income households.

Please write in support or request to speak to let council know you support affordable rental housing.

Missing Middle Pilot

A motion by Councilor Dominato to create a program for demonstration projects of ground oriented, missing middle type housing in the low density zones that cover most of the city.

Please support this motion by writing to council or requesting to speak in favour (deadline to register to speak is 1 hour before the start of the meeting).

You have probably received a postcard from the City notifying you about a public hearing, or perhaps have read a news story about one. But chances are you have never been to one. And that is a problem. The process that shapes our city and decides where people can and can't live does not represent the people of Vancouver.

What is a public hearing? Every city in BC has a set of bylaws, known as zoning, controlling what can and cannot be built on every lot in the city. If you ever wondered why 75% of land in Vancouver has expensive detached houses, rather than more affordable apartments and condos, zoning is the answer. Under provincial law, every time a city wants to change zoning, called a rezoning, the city council has to hold a public hearing, for members of the public to have their say.

That may sound good in theory, but in practice it is an ineffective, inequitable and broken way of deciding important questions of who gets to build and live where.

When the Vancouver City Council is in session, Abundant Housing Vancouver will be providing a breakdown of important public hearings, housing related motions and other housing business. 

Highlights:

445 Kingsway and 2395 St. George Street

A Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Project (MIRHPP) building with 215 rental homes, a short walk away from the future Mount Pleasant Skytrain station. Public hearing is Tuesday night.

Let City Council know you support more affordable rental housing by writing in support or requesting to speak.

1059-1075 Nelson Street

113 social housing units, 49 rental homes and 323 condos in a Passive House building in the West End. Public hearing is Thursday evening.

Let City Council know you support more housing for a range of incomes by writing in support or requesting to speak.

Corner Store Motion

Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung is bringing a motion to council to direct the planning department to take steps to increase the number of corner stores throughout the city.

If you want to support the motion you can contact Council or request to speak (deadline to register to speak is 1 hour before the start of the meeting).

C-2 Rental Policy

As part of the new Secured Rental Policy, city planning staff is proposing to allow up to six storey mixed use buildings, with rental housing in C-2 zones and requesting that Council refer these changes to a public hearing.