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Vancouver mayor-elect Pete Fry outlines first moves: supportive housing, gas ban, renter's office
After defeating incumbent Ken Sim in the Oct 17 civic election, Green mayor-elect Pete Fry told an interviewer the new council's "low-hanging fruit" will include reversing ABC's freeze on new supportive housing, restoring the natural gas heating ban for new buildings, and reopening the renter's office at City Hall. The new council is sworn in Nov 2.
Why it matters
This is Fry's first systematic account of his governing priorities since the win — naming several signature policies of the past four years of the ABC council majority for reversal, signalling a clear policy shift at Vancouver City Hall.
Full report
According to Vancouver Sun columnist Dan Fumano, two-term Green councillor Pete Fry said in an interview on Monday (Oct 19) that after the new council is sworn in, it will move first on what he described as "low-hanging fruit": reversing the freeze on new supportive housing that ABC imposed last year, restoring the city's previous ban on natural gas heating in new buildings that ABC lifted earlier this year, and reopening the renter's office at City Hall that ABC shuttered in 2023.
In the Oct 17 civic election, Fry defeated incumbent ABC mayor Ken Sim, becoming Vancouver's first Green mayor. The new council — four Greens, four COPE members, one OneCity member and just one ABC representative (Mike Klassen) — will be sworn in on Nov 2.
Fry said other changes from the four years of ABC's council majority, including key personnel decisions, will not be reversed immediately. The priorities match his campaign platform: using city land for affordable homes, creating a community safety office, and making visible poverty and homelessness on the streets a top priority.
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