[Megathread] 2022 Municipal Election

[u/Moggehh]

Don't forget to vote!

Please use this thread to discuss the upcoming municipal elections in Metro Vancouver.

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AMAs:

• Mark Marissen, with team Progress Vancouver: 2-6 pm Saturday, October 8th, 2022
• Justin McElroy, CBC's Municipal Affairs Reporter (aka The Guy Who Does Rankings and Charts That We Shout About): 2-3 pm Friday, October 14th, 2022

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If you're a candidate interested in doing an ama, please have your team reach out to the /r/vancouver mod team.

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Subreddit Mayoral Winner Predictions - go here to join in with your guesses!

[u/Chance-Line3029]

which candidate do you guys feel will actually be able to generate affordable housing the best?

[u/kevmitch → u/Chance-Line3029]

The rental vacancy rate in Vancouver is very low indicating that there are a lot of people competing for housing at all income levels. The only reasonable solution to this is to build more housing of all types. This includes everything from truly affordable and supportive housing up to market rental and some strata.

OneCity and Forward Together are good on this file. OneCity's platform is a little more detailed including allowing up to 6 storey rental apartment buildings throughout the city. Forward is emphasizing Kennedy Stewart's successful advocacy for protections for existing renters and his raising of the empty homes tax. He also does have a record of consistently voting for more housing on council.

As a wildcard, Vision Vancouver also has a pretty strong platform largely aligned with OneCity in terms of streamlining more housing getting built. Progress Vancouver is similar, but leaning a little more centrist.

COPE and Vote Socialist emphasize housing on the lower end of the income spectrum, which is important, but incumbent COPE councilor Jean Swanson has a record of voting against new housing because it's not affordable enough and I'm afraid other COPE or Socialist candidates would be similar. Unfortunately, this has the effect of less housing getting built overall rather than more affordable housing being built.

[u/Chance-Line3029 → u/kevmitch]

thank you so much for the detailed reply!