Broadway Plan: too big, but too big not to pass
In Vancouver, social housing probably doesn’t mean what you think it does
As the city defines it, a building is considered 100 per cent social housing if it’s rental housing that includes a minimum of 30 per cent low-market rents.
A fanciful promise to “make it easier to build social housing than mansions” failed to win support at Vancouver council last week.
Know Your Rights: Tenant Relocation and Protection policy
Under the City’s Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy, formally evicting long term tenants for “minor repairs” necessitates at a minimum 4 months free rent and moving expenses (in the case of a 10year tenant).
Thoughts on VAHA’s new micro-suite development
Thoughts on new micro-suite development on 100 block West Pender by Vancouver’s Affordable Housing Agency.
The conditions of this rezoning are consistent with how Vision Vancouver redefined “social housing” in their 2014 DTES Plan. For this proposed social housing project, only 30 of the 90 micro-suites will rent for under $1000/mo.
New Seattle Tiny Home Project: affordable homelessness solutions?
Seattle’s is a model similar to Portland’s Dignity Village, which I visited in 2014 and advocated for as a possible solution here. Volunteer labour and faith based groups played a huge role in helping to build these temporary intentional communities, and the results were profound: once they had temporary housing, the average resident was able to find stable permanent housing within 6 months.