Approve the Home is Here housing strategy
Housing & affordability · Sep 16, 2023
What changed
Council considered a housing strategy package covering City land, non-market housing, conversion incentives, permissions and tenant supports.
Confirmed 2023 Council minutes, September 16, pages 431–434 · reviewed Oct 30, 2026Why this decision is included
A citywide benchmark connecting later housing and zoning decisions. Retained as an unscored mixed package because individual component preferences cannot be separated.
How votes are grouped: This proposal is one decision family. Its readings, amendments and contextual votes cannot create additional independent evidence; an unscored proposal contributes no weight.
What Yes meant
Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions.
What No meant
Reject this strategy package at this vote; a No does not identify which of its many provisions the member opposed.
Alternatives and outcome
Adopt the amended strategy, reject it, or bring forward a different package.
The strategy package carried 12–3. Funding and land-use changes requiring later approval were still to return to Council.
adoptedA recorded vote or adoption does not establish that a project or service was delivered.
Recorded choices
| Date | Person | Decision | Recorded vote | Meaning and scoring rationale | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 16, 2023 | Andre Chabot | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Courtney Walcott | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Dan McLean | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | No | Reject this strategy package at this vote; a No does not identify which of its many provisions the member opposed. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Evan Spencer | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Gian-Carlo Carra | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Jasmine Mian | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Jennifer Wyness | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Jyoti Gondek | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Kourtney Penner | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Peter Demong | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | No | Reject this strategy package at this vote; a No does not identify which of its many provisions the member opposed. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Raj Dhaliwal | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Richard Pootmans | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Sean Chu | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | No | Reject this strategy package at this vote; a No does not identify which of its many provisions the member opposed. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Sonya Sharp | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Sep 16, 2023 | Terry Wong | Approve the Home is Here housing strategy | Yes | Approve the amended strategy package and its implementation and reporting directions. This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot identify opposition to its non-market component. Retain explanatory evidence without a narrow financial-support score. | Context / unscored |
Only reviewed policy choices are scored. Each independent decision family counts once per measure; choices within one budget or policy package share that family’s weight. statements, promises, absences and contextual amendments do not contribute. Two decisions are the minimum for a position. The sensitivity range shows the score after removing one decision at a time; it is not a statistical confidence interval or a prediction.
Published explanations
No sourced statements collected
This is a gap in the collected evidence; it does not establish a person’s views.
Documented policy leadership
No documented leadership entries collected
Sponsorship and committee appointments require an explicit source; a Yes vote alone does not establish either.