Vancouver Mayor's Supportive Housing Ban

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Opinion: Supportive housing makes communities safer

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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim wants to freeze development of new supportive housing in the city.

Many of the challenges we see in Vancouver stem from a lack of adequate support services, authors say.

Mayor Sim has suggested freezing any supportive housing not already in stream because Vancouver has more than its share.

Authors: We need enthusiastic support for successful supportive housing models already in place.

And, importantly, these groups need to work together to ensure that all our neighbours, in all cities and neighbourhoods in B.C. , have safe and affordable housing that meets their needs. Amanda Burrows is a community organizer, advocate, and the executive-director of First United , which has served low-income, under-housed, and homeless individuals in Vancouver ’s Downtown Eastside for 140 years ; Genesa Greening is CEO of Vancity Community Foundation and has spent more than two decades working to strengthen women’s health, affordability, racial justice, and reconciliation..

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