Great news this week out of city hall: The Mayor's Task Force on Housing Affordability released a report that contains suggestions for a number of new steps the City can take to increase and protect the stock of affordable housing in Vancouver... and they want your opinion on it.
The term "affordable housing" is one that is often misused (by me) when I think what people (me) are meaning to talk about is social housing, or housing for people who are hard-to-house, addicted, disabled, or otherwise not able to afford to live in market rentals or purchase a home. This interim report isn't covering suggestions about that kind of housing but instead it's got suggestions to stabilize and increase housing for people whose household incomes are between $21,500 and $86,500.
That's me. And possibly you.
So you should really take this survey, because these suggestions likely affect you and by giving your input the Mayor, and the City of Vancouver, can hopefully take actions to make sure we can all afford to keep living in this awesome city of ours.
The survey is being held RIGHT HERE on PlaceSpeak, which you hopefully already signed up for when we told you about the Urban Futures Survey... which you should also take if you haven't already!
An icon of blue collars no more. Photo: Duncan Rawlinson on Flickr.
Here's a sample question from the The Mayor's Task Force on Housing Affordability survey:
Currently in the City of Vancouver, large housing developments must include 20% of the housing for low-income social housing.
One recommendation of the Mayor's Task Force on Housing Affordability is to create more affordable options by requiring that an additional percentage of housing in large developments be targeted at moderate incomes–those that fall under $86,500 for a dual income household.
Do you agree or disagree with the Task Force's recommendation?
