{"id":22313,"date":"2020-11-21T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=22313"},"modified":"2020-11-21T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:06:29","slug":"57-of-vancouverites-think-life-is-getting-worse-for-them-city-wide-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/57-of-vancouverites-think-life-is-getting-worse-for-them-city-wide-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"57% of Vancouverites think life is getting worse for them: city-wide survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tan Mei Xi<br \/>\n---<br \/>\n<strong>In the largest response to an open-ended survey ever fielded by the City of Vancouver, 57% of respondents say that life in Vancouver was getting worse for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The survey was part of Phase 1 of the engagement process for developing the Vancouver Plan. Karis Hiebert, the manager of the Vancouver Plan project team, told The PULSE that the Vancouver Plan is a \"city-wide strategic plan that is currently under development... that [will] define key policy priorities and a city-wide spatial plan that identifies areas of growth and change for the next 30 to 50 years.\"<\/p>\n<p>According to the report released by the City, Phase 1 of the engagement process also found that Vancouverites see six core challenges in Vancouver: rising unaffordability; housing insecurity; visible public struggle; moving around Vancouver efficiently; widening social and economic inequality; and deteriorating trust and confidence in local government.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wanklin, senior planner for the Downtown Eastside, said that outreach efforts in the neighbourhood during Phase 1 included reaching out to community groups, non-profits, and \"community stewards\" through EMBERS Eastside Works. According to Wanklin, the community stewards assisted in outreach efforts to residents experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hiebert, the City will continue to engage with residents in the Downtown Eastside for Phases 2 and 3 of the development of the Vancouver Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tan Mei Xi &#8212; In the largest response to an open-ended survey ever fielded by the City of Vancouver, 57% of respondents say that life in Vancouver was getting worse for them. The survey was part of Phase 1 of the engagement process for developing the Vancouver Plan. Karis Hiebert, the manager of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":22315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[3384,2503],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=22313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}