Jean Swanson

• ‘They still house people’: Renovated SROs welcomed as part of DTES plan, but advocates call for more

  News of the newly-renovated SRO units for Downtown Eastside residents comes just months before 98 modular units in downtown Vancouver are slated to close.

  Politics

  Mar 29, 2023
  
• Vancouver approves vacancy control on single-room accommodation

  City council voted 10–1 Wednesday evening to approve a vacancy control motion that largely ties rents to the unit, rather than the tenant.

  News

  Nov 18, 2021
  
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• Vancouver backs push for ‘compassion clubs’ selling safer heroin, cocaine, meth

  Two groups are seeking a federal exemption to drug laws to run a "compassion club" that would distribute an untainted supply of street drugs, in a bid to curb overdose deaths.

  Health

  Oct 8, 2021
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• Vancouver councillors want city to declare a homelessness emergency

  The motion calls for a plan to find and build housing for at least 80 per cent of the homeless people in Vancouver and other cities within three years.

  Feb 23, 2020
• Vancouver councillor looks to protect SRO housing around new St. Paul’s Hospital

  The new health-care campus is blocks away from hundreds of low-income housing units that Coun. Jean Swanson says are under threat.

  Jan 18, 2020
• City of Vancouver votes to demand fossil fuel companies cover climate change costs

  The motion, which passed 7-4, points to a B.C. government report that projects the City of Vancouver will have to spend $1 billion this century to mitigate rising sea levels.

  Politics

  Jun 28, 2019
• Vancouver could join other B.C. municipalities asking energy sector to cover climate change costs

  A motion set to be introduced this week asks the mayor and council to write letters to fossil fuel companies to request accountability.

  Canada

  Jun 23, 2019
• Vancouver council rejects proposal to freeze controversial rental incentive program

  Vancouver City Councillors have voted to defer a motion looking at freezing incentives for purpose-built rental housing.

  Canada

  Apr 4, 2019
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• Vancouver councillor calls for end to financial incentives to developers under rental program

  Coun. Jean Swanson says the Rental 100 program isn't actually creating affordable rentals in the city.

  Mar 31, 2019
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• COPE calls for warming station, storage for Oppenheimer Park homeless campers

  A pair of Vancouver politicians are calling on the city to provide a warming station and storage services for the dozens of homeless campers in Oppenheimer Park.

  Politics

  Mar 11, 2019