Issues
Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Substance Abuse
Short Description of Issue: Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Addictions
Short Description of Solution:
Adopt and implement a “housing first” 10 year plan and create a mental health advocate whose job it is to deliver services across the City. Scrap “Project Civil City”.
Detailed Discussion
Housing
Short Description of Issue: Lack of Affordable Housing
Short Description of Solution:
The rule of “one-third” in that any new development or group of developments one third are built as upscale market housing, one third built as mid-priced housing or family friendly housing, and one-third be suitable for first time single or couples just getting established.
Detailed Discussion
Police Services
Short Description of Issue: Police services are not at the level required by our City.
Short Description of Solution:
Put tax dollars to work supporting the VPD – not the “Downtown Ambassadors Program”; re-open closed community policing centers; and free up existing police resources by changing police policy on how some calls are handled.
Detailed Discussion
Fire Services
Short Description of Issue:Fire and rescue services have not grown from the levels seen in the 1970’s, yet our population has grown.
Short Description of Solution:
We need to ensure adequate fire and rescue services throughout the city. End the use of job reclassifications to cover lack of services. Save Firehall 15!
Detailed Discussion
Transit
Short description of problem: Insufficient and inconvenient public
transit options that are not helping us get us out of our cars.
Short description of solution:
Buy more buses, create dedicated bus lanes, “U passes” for workers, and look at the establishment of downtown streetcars or free bus services
Detailed Discussion
Insite Appeal Motion
Short description of problem: Supervised injection site under Federal government legal attack
Short description of solution:
The City of Vancouver should formally intervene in a critical upcoming Court of Appeal case to defend Insite, the city’s supervised injection site, from the threat of closure by the Conservative government,
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