Vancouver Promise Tracker

Is Vancouver actually delivering affordable homes?

The city promised to build thousands of non-market (affordable/co-op/non-profit) homes. Here's how many have actually been completed or are under construction, by the year they became occupied.

Behind

Vancouver delivered about 559 non-market housing units per year recently, versus 842 per year before 2023.

1The story
What we're tracking An ABC Majority will increase the City of Vancouver's social and supportive housing investments in line with the consumer price index (CPI) every year. — ABC Vancouver's 2022 campaign platform

In plain terms: Non-market housing means homes you can't just buy on the open market — co-ops, non-profit rentals, supportive housing. These are the homes that keep people housed when market rents spike. The city tracks them in a public registry; we count units by the year they were expected to be occupied.

2The evidence
842
avg per year before (2018–2022)
559
avg per year since (2023–2025)
↓ 33.7%
change since Mayor Sim took office

Non-market housing units, by year

Green bars are the years after Mayor Sim took office (late 2022).
20181220198202011202122202262023420241220253
Sim took office Nov 2022 — compare green years to blue ones.
3The fine print
How we calculated this
We used the City of Vancouver's Non-Market Housing dataset, counting units (families + seniors + other) grouped by occupancy year for projects marked 'Completed' or 'Under Construction'. This is the city's own tracking system — it may lag real completions by a few months.
City of Vancouver open data — Non-Market Housing · as of 2026-10-21 · Vancouver Promise Tracker — an independent look at whether local leaders deliver on their word.
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