By YOLANDA COLE, Georgia Straight January 24, 2012 Vancouver city council will discuss a motion next week aimed at making changes to the city’s municipal election rules. A motion from Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer calls for the B.C. Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development to update the Vancouver Charter to allow the city [...]
Read more →By CHERYL ROSSI, Vancouver Courier January 20, 2012 Vancouver renters may soon be able to make more informed choices about the suites they live in or want to rent. City council unanimously passed a motion forwarded by Vision Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson Jan. 17 to have staff report back on the creation of an online [...]
Read more →By YOLANDA COLE, Georgia Straight January 17, 2012 Vancouver city councillors unanimously voted in favour Tuesday (January 17) of asking staff to report back on creating an online rental database in the city. Vision Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson, who introduced the motion, said the online database will bring “transparency” for renters. “I think it’s going [...]
Read more →For Immediate Release: January 17, 2012 The Coalition of Progressive Electors is urging Vancouver City Council to expand the scope of the Online Rental Database that passed today at Council because of far too many gaps that leave out a significant segment of rental housing in Vancouver. COPE’s Ellen Woodsworth says that leaving out SROs [...]
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