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In response to the housing crisis, we are resetting our Housing and Homelessness Strategy to better meet your needs
Vancouver is a vibrant city full of diverse, connected communities. Today, however, our neighborhoods are at risk.
As housing in Vancouver is increasingly unaffordable for our residents, we are taking bold strides forward with new initiatives to serve the needs of our residents – now and into the future
We are dedicated to ensuring every person who wants to call Vancouver home has access to the housing they need.
Housing Vancouver Strategy
Housing Vancouver will be our new 10-year strategy to improve housing affordability.
Our new strategy will create the right types of homes to meet the needs of the people who live and work in Vancouver.
Help shape the new housing strategy
Take one of our online questionnaires until June 23, 2017.
Vancouver residents
Help us understand what keeps you in Vancouver so we can improve our efforts to create the right type of housing.
Take the questionnaire 請參與問卷調查
Residents outside Vancouver
If you used to live in Vancouver or you commute into the city for work or school, help us understand what prevents you from living in Vancouver and what the city needs for you to live here.
(1.9 MB)Our new priorities
Housing Vancouver Strategy
Our new strategy will address housing affordability over the next 10 years. Learn more and get involved.
News about housing
City unveils future of housing, delivering 11,500 new homes in Cambie Corridor
June 12 2017 - Cambie Corridor Plan first in a series of moves to deliver the 'right supply' of housing, including townhomes, row houses, and rental housing near transit
Affordable housing the largest recipient of public benefit contributions in 2016
June 8 2017 - Next week City staff will present to Council the annual reports on contributions from development.
City invites public to join the big conversation to help shape new housing strategy
May 26 2017 - We launched our public consultation process to collect feedback about the proposed priorities and actions to address the housing affordability crisis.
Our next steps to address homelessness, help SRO tenants
April 11 2017 - We have increased our response to address homelessness in the past year, and will take even further action throughout 2017 as high housing costs, near-zero rental vacancy, and frozen welfare rates continue to impact residents.
Housing programs and resources
Find rental properties with health or safety issues
Look up residential rental buildings in Vancouver with health, safety, maintenance, tidiness, and other issues. The database lists buildings with issues that are unresolved or were resolved in the last 12 months.
Homelessness and low-income resources
Find shelters, financial aid, low-cost meals and recreation, and community centres that serve low-income residents.
Social- and market rental housing
Resources for tenants and developers of social housing, co-op housing, and market rental housing.
Supportive housing
Learn about supportive housing to help people who are homeless or at-risk to lead stable, independent, and connected lives.
Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency
Uses City- and partner-owned land for new housing projects with more types of home options and greater affordability than the private market.
Mayor's Task Force on Housing Affordability
The Task Force recommended bold and practical ways to improve housing affordability for low- to moderate-income households.
Related policies
Housing options for families
The Housing Mix Policy for Rezoning Projects is another step towards increasing the supply of family homes.
Rental standards database
About our initiative to create an online database of rental buildings and their compliance with health and safety bylaws.
Winter Response Shelter Strategy
The City is working with the Province to provide cold-weather shelter, and connect homeless people to community resources.
Sign up for updates
Sign up for information on upcoming public events and activities that will help shape the new strategy to address affordable housing in Vancouver.
