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Reconciliation

Reconciliation Grant: The Real Numbers and the Rationale

January 16, 2022 lisahelps

This past week, the Grumpy Taxpayer$ published a blog post and sent out a newsletter with inaccurate information about the…

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Affordability, Housing and Homelessness/Climate Change and Sustainability

Part 3. Missing Middle Housing, Design Guidelines, and the Protection of Neighbourhood Character

January 9, 2022 lisahelps

This post will be as much photo essay as written word. I want to show that Missing Middle Housing already…

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Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric

New Year’s Message: Co-Existence Key to Healthy Democracy, Community in 2022

January 1, 2022 lisahelps

The apple and the aspen, two very different trees happily co-exist side by side in our backyard. At the beginning…

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Affordability, Housing and Homelessness

Part 2. Missing Middle Housing, Tenant Protections, and How Missing Middle Upzoning Alone Won’t Solve the Affordability Crisis

December 19, 2021 lisahelps

Samples of Missing Middle Housing proposed for Victoria. These are low-rise, multi-family dwellings that fit into existing neighbourhoods and are…

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Affordability, Housing and Homelessness/Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric/Well Being and Healthy Cities

Part 1. The Racist and Exclusionary History of Single Family Zoning

December 5, 2021 lisahelps

The majority of the light yellow areas – which comprise a large portion of the city's limited land base –…

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Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric/Climate Change and Sustainability/Well Being and Healthy Cities

Privacy, Loneliness, and Climate Adaptation

November 28, 2021 lisahelps

Our backyard adjacent to our neighbours. At just about every land use public hearing I've sat through for the last…

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Budgeting and City Finances

Victoria’s 2022 Budget Sets the Table for the Future

November 15, 2021 lisahelps

This piece was originally published in the Times Colonist here. I’ve been at the Council table for 10 years; this…

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Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric

The World Is Coming Apart at the Seams and Why We Should Embrace It

October 31, 2021 lisahelps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPuj3J49dzQ A few weeks ago, the City of Victoria, the Victoria Foundation and the Canadian Urban Institute came together to…

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Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric/Economic Development and Prosperity/Well Being and Healthy Cities

Welcoming Victoria: An Inclusive, Anti-Racist City

October 17, 2021 lisahelps

To learn more about the process of developing the Welcoming City Strategy and to meet some members of the Welcoming…

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Reconciliation

Late September Strawberries, and the Work of Reconciliation

October 10, 2021 lisahelps

I wrote this poem while picking strawberries, a few days before the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation –…

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