Housing & affordability

Non-market homes, housing supports and the City's housing strategy: distinguish funding decisions from homes actually completed. People are shown across their recorded careers unless dates are set.

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Public support for non-market housing

Reviewed decisions that provide a specific financial or tax benefit for non-market housing. A vote records a choice on that proposal, not an estimate of affordability outcomes or an overall housing ideology.

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Richard Pootmans

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Person	Score (0–100)	Independent decisions	Remove-one low	Remove-one high	Evidence status	First vote	Last vote
Richard Pootmans	Not available	0	Not available	Not available	Insufficient voting evidence	Not available	Not available

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.

Decisions and alternatives

Sep 16, 2023 · adopted

Approve the Home is Here housing strategy

Council considered a housing strategy package covering City land, non-market housing, conversion incentives, permissions and tenant supports.

Outcome: The strategy package carried 12–3. Funding and land-use changes requiring later approval were still to return to Council.

Confirmed 2023 Council minutes, September 16, pages 431–434 · reviewed Oct 30, 2026

Position evidence and history

Date	Person	Decision	Recorded vote	Meaning and scoring rationale	Use
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 be read as opposition to its non-market component. It is shown for context and not scored as narrow financial support.	Context / unscored

Recorded choices remain attached to their proposals. Contextual motions are visible and unscored.

How the record developed

Date	Person	Record type	Choice or statement	Source
Sep 16, 2023	Richard Pootmans	Recorded vote	Approve the Home is Here housing strategy · Yes This strategy package combines non-market financial support with market-housing, zoning, tenant and reporting policies. A Yes supports the package; a No cannot be read as opposition to its non-market component. It is shown for context and not scored as narrow financial support.	Confirmed 2023 Council minutes, September 16, pages 431–434 · reviewed Oct 30, 2026

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