The False Creek South Neighbourhood Association created *RePlan in 2010 to work with the City of Vancouver on developing new lease options to preserve the community beyond lease expiry. Most *RePlan volunteers live in the community and devote hundreds of hours of personal time every year on the complex issues involved in lease renewal.

False Creek South offers a housing model that is affordable, resilient and community-focussed, with a variety of affordable, mixed-income housing options that span a spectrum of housing tenures.

There is problem: Existing affordable housing is eroding and new community growth is stalled because the landlord (the City of Vancouver) isn’t addressing the urgent issue of security of tenure for the 6,000 residents who live in on leased land in False Creek South.

All aspects of the community are being impacted—from the ability to finance the cost of housing and major renovations to community growth and planning.

Time is running out: many of the leases are coming due in the next few years.

Vancouver City Council has the ability to to protect the existing variety of affordable, mixed-income housing options in False Creek South, to eliminate the threat of housing insecurity on leased City land, to kick start community growth, and to create right-sized housing in the neighbourhood. But they haven’t—and the issue has been dragging on for years despite twelve years of Council motions to resolve it.

False Creek South as housing experiment has worked! It’s up to the City to act now.

Let’s grow False Creek South

• Let’s have right-sized homes for families and seniors, and for new generations to move in
• Let’s have intergenerational living spaces to curb loneliness and foster connections
• Let’s have a campus of care
• Let’s build permanent housing for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness
• Let’s have workforce housing so more people can live near their jobs

Let’s expand affordable, resilient, mixed-income, mixed-tenure housing communities, like this one. Vancouver needs to protect and create more housing that is community centred, diverse, equitable, inclusive and secure that spans all leasehold housing tenures, including permanent housing for people who have experienced or are at risk of homelessness.

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ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

1. False Creek South Neighbourhood Association represents a mixed social and income community of 6,000 residents who live in a diversity of housing tenures, where 60 percent of housing units are located on City-owned leased land.
2. These are almost 2,000 units. There are 976 co-op and non-market rental + 825 strata and market-rate rental units:
   1. six co-ops (573 units),
   2. four market-rental buildings (124 units),
   3. six non-profit rental buildings, six non-profit rental, including an assisted-living facility, a facility for people with disabilities and supportive care homes for more than 450 seniors, most of whom are low income,
   4. 13 stratas (669 units),
   5. 52 temporary modular units for people who have experienced homelessness,
   6. Density (people per hectare) is almost double at 103 people/hectare versus the Vancouver average of 55 people/hectare.
3. There are 1680 families with 750 children. There are 735 families with children, including are 245 single-parent homes, and 945 families without children.
4. 17% of co-op households on leased City land in False Creek South earn less than $30,000/year and 51% of co-op households have incomes below $60,000/year, including many seniors.
5. False Creek South is located on 55 hectares of former industrial lands between Cambie Bridge and Granville Island on the south side of the False Creek inlet. The area was developed in the 70s and 80s as a pioneering, inner-city, pedestrian-only waterfront community and that continues to be a community planning example for affordable and diverse housing tenures of mixed income households.