With the housing disaster reaching surreal levels of chaos, the city’s plans to build 78 units of temporary modular housing in Marpole couldn’t come soon enough. And more is on the way—the province has committed $66 million to fund capital and operating costs for 600 temporary modular homes in Vancouver.

Vancouver BC, October 10, 2017 --  ln the midst of Vancouver’s most unaffordable rental market in history, Judy Graves has called on City Council candidates to support city-wide affordable zoning changes that would open every neighbourhood to building new purpose-built affordable rental and co-op housing.

PRESS RELEASE -- OneCity Continues 4-Year Fight for Financial Reform, Releases Donors List

Vancouver BC, October 11, 2017 -- In keeping with OneCity’s commitment to transparency and financial accountability, OneCity released its list of donors today and again called on the Province to change the rules governing municipal election financing.

PRESS RELEASE -- Judy Graves Proposes Immediate Actions to End the Overdose Crisis

Vancouver BC, October 2, 2017 - Every five hours, one of our neighbours dies from a preventable drug overdose. A courageous response to the overdose crisis is long overdue.

Today, Judy Graves outlined the actions she would take as City Councillor to address the causes of the overdose crisis, strengthen front line responses, make our city safe for everyone, and advocate for change on national and provincial levels.

We are officially two weeks away from the October 14th by-election. Please continue reading for all the information you need to support OneCity at the polls to help us build a Vancouver for everyone!

Vancouver BC, September 29, 2017 –  Vision’s proposal to revive the “Vancouver Special” housing model from the 1980’s is another example of the half-measures and too-little-too-late offerings Vancouver voters have come to expect of the current Council.

VANCOUVER —ONECITY PLEDGES TO DEFEND PUBLIC SCHOOL LAND FROM LUXURY DEVELOPERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | 29 September 2017

We need to act now to ensure that School Board property is never sold to luxury condo developers.

Because public education funding has been under attack for so long, there is extra pressure on the School Board to make up their budget shortfalls by selling off public lands.

Carrie Bercic and Erica Jaaf, your OneCity School Board candidates for 2017, are honoured to have received the endorsements of associations and unions representing the people working in our public schools:

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

VANCOUVER-- In a packed meeting last night the Vancouver and District Labour Council (VDLC) voted to endorse all three OneCity candidates for the upcoming city by-election.

OneCity candidates - Judy Graves for City Council and Erica Jaaf and Carrie Bercic for School Board – are proud but humbled to have won the support of Vancouver’s labour community.  

The VDLC represents 110 union locals and has a total membership of about 60,000 trade unionists.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | 12 September 2017

VANCOUVER — OneCity’s Made in Vancouver Housing plan will ensure we lead the country in building new affordable rentals.

Today, Judy Graves and the OneCity team announced their Made-In-Vancouver Housing plan to jumpstart an affordable housing boom and address Vancouver’s housing crisis head-on. 

The plan features four policies that will generate millions of dollars of local revenue and create thousands of new, guaranteed affordable, city-owned rental homes every year. At the heart of the proposal is a commitment to fairness by ensuring people who benefitted most from the current housing bubble do their fair share to help fix it.

“People in Vancouver understand that solving the housing crisis means building real affordable homes. Every dollar generated by these policies will be used to build thousands of guaranteed affordable rentals all over the city.” said City Council Candidate Judy Graves. "Affordability for low and middle income families, seniors, and workers needs to be guaranteed by the city and not left to the free-market and development community to determine."

The highlights of the Made-In-Vancouver Housing Plan OneCity released today include:

• Create a local luxury property surtax of 1.5% on the wealthiest 1% and 0.5% on the wealthiest 5% of residential property owners in Vancouver.

• Establish a city-wide Affordable Guarantee to ensure rents are fixed at 30% of tenants’ income in all City-owned rentals, in perpetuity.

• Create a Flipping Levy on all homes sold within 3 years of purchase. The Flipping Levy would apply a 50% tax to the speculative profit made within the first year, and decrease to 35% in years two and three.

• Open up all Vancouver neighbourhoods with new city-wide inclusionary zoning to put affordable housing before sprawling mansions and luxury developments.  

In the coming weeks, Judy and OneCity will propose additional housing measures to protect and advocate for renters and address gentrification in the Downtown Eastside. Other key policies that support and grow Vancouver’s vibrant and inclusive communities and neighbourhoods are forthcoming.

Click here to download the fact-sheet.

Media Contact:

Tyler Michaels, OneCity Campaign Co-Manager, 604-836-6112

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