Jean Swanson has run for city council several times since the 1970s, but most recently her 2017 by-election campaign gained a wave of popular support by tapping into popular anger around inaction on Vancouver’s housing crisis. Her campaign called attention to the acute lack of affordable housing in Vancouver, which has the highest rents and lowest vacancy rates in Canada. Jean’s call for a four-year rent freeze and a “mansion tax” of an additional one percent on houses valued at over $5 million were concrete demands that people could rally around. Jean was almost successful in gaining a position on council, she came close to winning despite her shoestring budget.
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