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Meet Lucy Maloney: OneCity's Council By-election Candidate

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Downtown Vancouver is Lucy Maloney’s chosen home.

After earning a law degree and an MBA, and after pursuing a career in environmental law and in business, Lucy decided to focus on raising her family. They settled in a rental home in the West End, two minutes from her children’s public school.

After they were forced to move due to renovations, she and her kids started to bike to school. And that experience taught them just how much good municipal leadership matters. It decides whether you have affordable housing, safe streets, and strong communities.

Or whether you don’t.

So she started to advocate for safe routes to school for her kids, and kids across Vancouver. First as the Chair of the Lord Roberts PAC, then as an advocate with the Vancouver DPAC - and finally as a fighter for safe streets with Vision Zero Vancouver.

But for advocates to get results, the municipal government needs to be listening. And under Ken Sim, the City of Vancouver isn’t listening at all. And we can see the results: a mayor that barely shows up for work while our city is in crisis - and who makes immensely damaging decisions when he does show up.

Choices that make our streets more dangerous. Our homes less secure. And our homelessness crisis worse.

So she’s taking her fight to City Hall.

With Lucy at the table, we can fight back. You can count on her to use her training and her drive on day one, fighting for the issues you care about. 

Exposing Ken Sim for his broken promises.

And rallying the community against him when he tries to do more damage.

Ken Sim isn’t working for you.

If you want a city where every neighbourhood welcomes everybody, where everyone feels safe on the streets, and where workers, elders and children all belong, Lucy Maloney is ready to get to work for you.

Lucy Maloney is ready to get to work on the issues that matter to you:

ABC Vancouver passed Christine Boyle’s Social Housing Motion in 2022. It is now 2025, and they have refused to implement it - choosing instead to rip down homes for our homeless neighbours, and even cancel all new supportive housing projects.

Lucy Maloney will fight to get this motion implemented, at last - so we can finally get shovels in the ground.

As her first motion as a Councillor, Lucy Maloney will move to bring back the Vancouver Renter Office - as a Tenant Advocacy Office. To proactively monitor developers for compliance with our laws, to uncover bad landlord behaviour, and to enforce the law and impose penalties where necessary.

Whether you walk, take transit, bike or roll to work or to school, everyone wants the same thing: to get where you’re going, and to get home, quickly and safely.

Under Ken Sim, instead of taking evidence-based action to make our most dangerous intersections safer, the City of Vancouver is studying the problem to death.

Lucy will use her first-hand knowledge of best practices from cities across the world to make our streets safe for everyone who uses them.

Everyone deserves to feel safe in their neighbourhoods.

When the law is broken, when people suffer violent assaults or stranger attacks, the perpetrators must be brought to justice.

To build a truly safe city, we must invest in the solutions that prevent crime, and allow police to focus their resources on tackling violence. Like housing with wraparound services, like automated speed enforcement, like Peer-Assisted Care Teams (PACTs).

Ken Sim ran on investing in these services. We were promised 100 nurses.

He broke his promise. We got 12.

Everyone is safer when all community members receive the housing, healthcare, and social supports they need.

Lucy Maloney will expose Ken Sim for his broken promises, and his failure to build a city where we’re all safe.

Vancouver styles itself as the world’s greenest city. But under Ken Sim, the City is moving back from its climate leadership: ripping up and cancelling bike lanes, failing to fund the City’s climate plan, and even trying to bring gas back into new buildings.

When Ken Sim tried to bring back methane gas in new buildings, he lost - but it was close. We need every vote at Council to stop Ken Sim from doing more climate damage.

Lucy Maloney will fight to preserve Vancouver’s climate leadership, and a livable future for all of us.

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