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Vancouver touts Downtown Eastside housing plan for replacement of rooming houses
Vancouver reduces shelter-rate unit requirements from 33% to 20% and allows up to 32-storey towers to improve social housing development viability, officials said.
- Yesterday, Vancouver City Council voted to amend zoning and development rules in Downtown Eastside, changing the social housing definition and reducing units required at income-assistance shelter rates to accelerate rooming house replacement.
- The city says the revisions modernize outdated rules that have hampered redevelopment efforts to fix deteriorating housing conditions in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.
- The report recommends aligning the city's affordability requirements with senior government funding programs, which could decrease affordability for some development projects while increasing activity.
- Rising construction costs mean it is `never been more expensive` to build affordable housing, the report says, while reliance on aging single-room-occupancy buildings complicates support for low-income residents at risk of homelessness.
- Mayor Ken Sim says single-room-occupancy buildings are deteriorating and regulatory barriers have blocked replacements, framing revisions as a trade-off between faster redevelopment and preserving deeply affordable units aligned with senior government funding.
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Vancouver touts Downtown Eastside housing plan for replacement of rooming houses
VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver says it has adopted a “significant shift” in housing policy for the Downtown Eastside to speed up the replacement of rooming houses in the impoverished neighbourhood. Council voted last night to amend zoning and development rules, changing the definition of “social housing” in the neighbourhood, while reducing the number […]
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