Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim announced Thursday that he will bring a motion before council to pause any “net new supportive housing units” in the city until the region’s municipalities build more of the type of housing stock in their communities.
While Vancouver accounts for 25 per cent of Metro Vancouver’s population, the city has more than 77 per cent of the region’s supportive housing units. In addition, more than 67 per cent of the region’s operating shelter spaces and over half of the region’s social housing is in Vancouver, Sim said.
“This imbalance is unsustainable, especially when much of our existing supportive housing, including our extensive SRO stock, is
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