Stephanie’s first priorities as the next Mayor of Vancouver:

• 1. Make Vancouver Affordable
  
  

  • Negotiate, secure, and build 20,000+ affordable homes for people getting priced out of the city, including deeply affordable housing.
    
    

  • Use every power the city has to lower everyday costs, and expand access to affordable groceries, stop price gouging, and free or low cost community amenities close to transit that support arts, culture, play, and leisure
    
    

  • Fight to make public transit fast and free, starting with low-income passes, service improvements, and fare-free routes.
    
    

  • Invest in public, $10/day childcare and push for partnerships to accelerate access so families can keep Vancouver home.
    
    

  • Upgrade libraries, community centres, and public pools to provide world class facilities, open all libraries 7 days a week, and support the growth of Vancouver’s circular economy and repair infrastructure to reduce waste while making people's lives better.

• 2. Fight for Housing
  
  

  • Strengthen tenant protections to stop forced displacement, create a city-wide anti-displacement policy, and launch a demoviction task force to shift development away from vulnerable renters.
    
    

  • Bring back the renter’s office, with the power to crack down on bad landlords and fight for tenants, and in cases of extreme neglect or abuse of power, expropriate those properties, deduct costs to repair and upgrade, and turn into affordable housing.
    
    

  • Triple the empty homes tax and increase enforcement on vacant properties that are slipping through the cracks.
    
    

  • Make it easy for tenants to buy their rental buildings to convert into co-ops and land trusts, and for the city to buy rental buildings with nonprofit or government partners before they go to market for redevelopment.
    
    
    
    

• 3. Power to the People
  
  

  • Work with residents, advocates, local shops and restaurants, and neighbourhoods, not against them. No more phony consultations or box-checking exercises. We'll protect our public institutions and listen to the people.
    
    

  • Community-led planning, budgets, and policy including citizens assemblies, participatory budgeting, strengthened advisory committees, referenda, and dedicated community and resident engagement.
    
    

  • Co-creation of a new civic commons. The city can play a part in fostering the creation of new organizations and community groups aimed at improving public space, fostering community, and providing benefits to the public.
     

  • Make every vote count. Instead of pinching our nose every four years to pick “lesser evils” to keep out truly awful mayors, we can have a ranked-choice ballot for Mayor that gives every voter an expressive ballot that actually counts.