by Carlito Pablo on April 20th, 2021 at 1:03 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Vision Vancouver ruled the city for a decade from 2008 to 2018.
The developer-friendly party left behind several legacies.
One of these is a new definition of social housing.
Social housing used to mean 100 percent affordable housing.
With Vision Vancouver, entire developments came to be known as social housing even though only 30 percent of the units are affordable housing.
It does not matter that 70 percent of the units are rented at market units.
Vision Vancouver is gone, a new council has taken over, but Vision’s definition of social housing remains.
This evening (April 20), city council will reconvene for the resumption of public hearing on a proposed move to shelve rezoning as a requirement for new social housing projects.