PLATFORM

Building an equitable, affordable, and ecological city.

As Vancouverites we want to enjoy affordable, healthy, safe lives, and a good standard of living, surrounded by the rich, natural beauty of our province. We want to give our children and grandchildren the same opportunity. We want a future we can believe in. We want a city where people flourish and thrive.

Our economic systems have prioritized the wealthy while failing to cater to even the most basic human rights of housing and meaningful work. While we, the people, feel the pressure of inflation and increased unaffordability, large corporations continue to experience record windfall profits. Our economy needs a healthy recovery and a new normal.

We need to build housing for people, not investors, We need to invest in local businesses and ensure they thrive, and we need to build resilience by divesting our portfolio from fossil fuels into alternate green energy.

Hold The Super Rich Accountable

Make the rich pay their are share of the affordability and climate crises they caused.

Mansion Tax
Yacth Tax

Evict corporations from City Hall

the city is for teh people - not coprorations

Loobyist registry

Fully Fund our Public Services

public services are the backbone of teh city

fully fund libraries
fire fireghters
social workes in teh DTE

Affordable housing is a basic human right

Renter Affordability

esure that renters are protected

renters office to reopen
Strengthen the TRPP
use city land to buoild affordable rentals
Standards of maintannce - slumlord landlords
landlord registry and landlord business licensing

Climate Safe Affordable Housing

Affordability tied to income

climate safe - heat maximums

Housing for People, not profit

tie affordablity to income
no net loss - incraesed density
rezone
protect existing affprable housing
commercial taxes for 2nd property
right to first refusal
More co-ops
Build housing justice not housing ‘stock’
Disabled people are disproportionately represented below the poverty line and among the unhoused.

Transport

Transportation affects every aspect of our lives, where we live, how we connect with others, and whether we can access opportunities. Fast, affordable, acecssible, and safe transit will shift how people move, reduce household costs, and enable a giant leap forward on meeting our climate goals.

Active Transportation

Advance cycling by:

Connecting Vancouver’s cycling network including neighbourhood greenways and traffic-calmed residential streets.
Active Transportation:
Ensure Vancouver’s Transportation 2040 Plan not only achieves at least two-thirds of trips by walking, cycling and transit, but that greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced.
Increased funding for protected bike lanes, pedestrian infrastructure, and safe infrastructure, particularly in underserved areas.
Ensuring Clr Carr’s successful motion for cycling education in every Vancouver school is actually implemented.
Funding a bicycle program that gifts bicycles free of charge to Vancouver school children for community service work ($1 million could fund up to 10,000 bikes)

Reliable & Safe Transit

Transit signal priority (TSP): Program sensors so that if a bus is behind schedule, the light stays green longer for them.
Bus Lanes: Dedicated 24/7 bus lanes on arterial routes.
Bus Bulbs: "bus bulbs" (sidewalk extensions) so buses don't have to pull out of traffic to pick up passengers, significantly speeding up routes.
Parking Regulations: By removing street parking, the City can create "Queue Jumpers" (short lanes that let buses bypass a line of cars at a red light).

Reduce Vehicle miles traveled

dog on buses pilot
other options
bike share

Public Services

Invest in local Businesses

As larger corporations are taking in record profits, small businesses are suffering. BC is well-placed to be a hub for high-tech careers like software development, research, engineering, film, and more. We need to support local innovators with big ideas, by making funding pathways available and encouraging business models like cooperatives that put local workers first. We must also invest in BC owned businesses, especially clean energy projects.

Build Resilience, Measure success

Our economy should prioritize local solutions to our needs, and the local jobs that come with them. We We need to rethink how we measure success and health of our economy.

GDP was an accounting tool that originated in the 1930s to measure the size of the US economy. Somewhere along the way, governments started to treat it as a measure of the health of our economy and human wellbeing—a purpose for which it was not intended.

Adopt health and wellbeing budgets with genuine progress indicators focused on economic, health, social and environmental factors, and require Ministries to justify spending in accordance with measurable progress on these indicators.

Clean, Sustainable Jobs

British Columbians should be able to take advantage of the countless opportunities for meaningful, secure jobs that a low-carbon economy can create. The Just Transition to an ecologically sustainable future need not disrupt the livelihoods of those in extraction industries. We must fund and aid these transitions in a manner that is just and equitable to power our future economy.

Develop a clean jobs program
Create a Youth Climate Corps
implement a Just Transition program for workers in the energy industry - set up funds for skills development, re-training, and early retirement.
Partner with colleges, technical institutes and private organizations to develop training programs to expand employment in the green retrofit space.