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Vancouver’s long-time push for ‘missing middle’ housing takes the form of a proposal to allow about 4,000 square feet of floor space, and up to four units, on each 33-foot-wide lot
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.
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A little more than three years after a fire destroyed the homes of 27 Indigenous families in East Vancouver, a new vision for the property will soon rise from the ashes. But not without opposition.
A four-storey apartment building near Commercial Drive operated by the Vancouver Native Housing Society has been empty ever since a fire days before Christmas 2017 left the building uninhabitable. But with city council’s recent approval of a redevelopment plan, the society will more than double the number of affordable homes on the site.
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