The Empty Homes Tax works. Let’s make it stronger.  — COPE Vancouver by Sean Orr We need to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax. This is one of the best of the limited number of tools we have at the municipal level to both discourage real estate speculation and directly f...

🚨On City Council's agenda TODAY:

A motion from @seanorr.bsky.social to reverse ABC's weakening of the Empty Homes Tax.

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Vancouver city councillor calls to hike empty homes tax to 5% Vancouver city Coun. Sean Orr is behind a new motion calling for the city's empty homes tax to increase from three to five per cent. He joins Stephen Quinn to discuss what impact it would have on hous...

Vancouver city Coun. @seanorr.bsky.social is behind a new motion calling for the city's empty homes tax to increase from three to five per cent.

On Monday he discussed the motion with CBC's Early Edition: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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LISTEN: Vancouver City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social spoke with CBC's @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social this morning about why we need to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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New Vancouver councillor wants to reverse ABC's changes to empty homes tax COPE Coun. Sean Orr wants to ramp up the municipality's taxes on empty homes, reversing changes made by the city's ruling ABC party.

NEW: Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social
is introducing a motion at City Council to increase the rate of the Empty Homes Tax.

vancouversun.com/news/local-n... #FightForHousing #vanpoli #EmptyHomesTax

This crisis requires urgent action from all levels of govt.

In Vancouver we're fighting to win:

- Permanently affordable housing

- Real rent control, tied to the unit

- More co-op housing on City-owned land

Read more: www.votecope.ca/fight-for-ho...

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Latest count finds record number of people experiencing homelessness in Metro Vancouver - BC | Globalnews.ca The count found a 30 per cent increase in people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, meaning they are living outdoors, without protection from the elements.

NEW: Latest homelessness count reveals record numbers.

The number of people unsheltered in the City of Vancouver is up 26% from 2023.

We need to elect a majority at City Hall who'll fight for the housing we need.

globalnews.ca/news/1131181...

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It’s Time to Let Tenants Unionize and Bargain Collectively | The Tyee New Minister Gregor Robertson can address the ‘housing crisis’ with one change.

Excellent article on the case for legalizing collective bargaining for tenants, which @seanorr.bsky.social campaigned on in our #FightForHousing platform.

City Council has recognized housing as a human right. Now we need concrete action by all levels of govt.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025... #vanpoli

THE ORR REPORT: On passing my first motions unanimously, honouring Trey Helten, opposing a million-dollar sign, and taking the fight for housing on to Ottawa — COPE Vancouver Last week, my first two motions at City Council passed unanimously. That’s a sentence I would never have imagined writing just a few weeks ago. First we passed my motion, "Increasing Funding to Vit...

NEW: COPE’s City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social reports on a busy couple of weeks at City Hall - and why he's taking the #FightForHousing on to Ottawa this week

www.votecope.ca/news/orr-rep...

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Should home prices go down? ’No,’ says Canada’s new housing minister - National | Globalnews.ca Gregor Robertson, the former Vancouver mayor, was sworn in as housing minister in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet on Tuesday.

“The Government of Canada has not been building affordable housing since the ‘90s.”

Add your voice to our campaign to get Ottawa to reinvest in co-op, public, and social housing: votecope.ca/fundhousingnow

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Opinion: Tenant rights shouldn’t be an afterthought during redevelopment Opinion: Building new supply while protecting existing tenants is not an impossibility akin to violating the laws of physics.

"Sean Orr argued that the focus should not just be on expanding the Broadway Plan protections across the city but also on further strengthening the protections themselves..."

vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

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We’re overdue for the federal govt to get back into financing and building co-op and public housing in cities like Vancouver.

We need fighters on City Council like @seanorr.bsky.social to push all levels of govt to fund the homes we need.

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Fight For Housing — COPE Vancouver Sean Orr and COPE will fight to close the loopholes landlords use to jack up rents, build permanently affordable public housing, and end homelessness in Vancouver.

📢We’re proud to announce our housing platform: the policies & principles @seanorr.bsky.social will work hard for every day.

Ken Sim is invested in the housing crisis continuing.

Sean Orr will fight for the city we need.

www.votecope.ca/fight-for-ho...

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Order your Sean Orr sign now: copevancouver.ca/get_a_sign

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Our democratic institutions are worth fighting for. Local elections matter.

Great crowd for tonight’s all-candidates forum at Mt Pleasant Community Centre for April 5th by-election.

ABC candidates are not here. Ken Sim hopes no one cares.

#vanpoli #byelection #EvictKenSim #FightForHousing

Sean and friend sharing a laugh with Evict Ken Sim wall posters in background.

Tanya Webking sharing a powerful opening.

Crowd at WISE Hall listening to Sean's speech.

Sean Orr smiling at the podium.

We're still smiling about last week's launch party.

This is what momentum and hope look like.

Vancouver doesn't have to be this way.

On April 5th, we're taking democracy back from the billionaires.

www.votecope.ca

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