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Originally Posted by dreambrother808

Also what does the NPA offer to address the underlying reasons voters are disappointed with Vision? They’d have been even worse during this housing crisis.

Scott de Lange Boom, who's seeking an NPA nomination, seems to be onbaord with Hector Bremner's radical rezoning:

...When Vancouver needed a leader to confront the housing issue head-on, roll up his or her sleeves and use every tool in the kit to solve the crisis, we got a mayor who instead played the blame game with the province. The single biggest tool in the city’s tool box, land use and permitting what would determine whether housing is scarce or abundant, was barely touched in any meaningful way.

The new government must not be afraid to make sweeping reforms to the city’s land use policies. When purpose-built rental buildings are banned on more than 70 per cent of residential land and are desperately needed in the face of a vacancy rate under one per cent, it is little wonder rents are skyrocketing and unscrupulous landlords capitalizing on the situation. Sadly Vision has done little to end the apartment ban.

The one promising development to come out of City Hall has been the initiative advanced by the city’s newest councillor, Hector Bremner, to take on Vancouver’s most atrocious zoning by changing West Point Grey’s mandatory mansions’ zoning in favour of allowing six-storey rental buildings in the area directly adjacent to UBC. (Bremner is seeking the NPA nomination to run for mayor in October’s municipal election.)...

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/28/New-Generation-Vancouver-City-Hall/