Bowen Community Foundation: Vital Conversation 2017

 

Everyone wants a front door to come home to…

On January 20, 2018, The Bowen Island Community Foundation released its report on the Vital Conversation, held September 2017.

Housing is identified as a priority:

“Priority: Develop Housing For All”

It’s great to see it so clearly laid out in the report, along with solutions that were brainstormed at the vital conversations event. From the report:

  • Establish a Bowen Island Housing Authority
  • Create and maintain an up-to-date and accurate database of the Bowen housing Market
  • Encourage the municipality to appropriately zone surplus lands for mixed-use, affordable-market and non-market housing
  • Focus on senior housing options with varying levels of care

 

Download and read the full text here:

https://bowenfoundation.com/vital-conversations-2017/

 

YIMBY

YIMBY: Yes In My Back Yard

If we want to create positive change, we have to start saying yes!

YIMBY-ism in the news:

http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2016/07/04/yimby-movement-forming-vancouver/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/yimby-groups-pro-development/532437/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/02/rise-of-the-yimbys-angry-millennials-radical-housing-solution

If you want change, get out there and let everyone know!