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Jean Swanson
Last published Dec. 2025 · On our record since 2016
Where this writer stands
Housing1 piece
Public supply and demand controlsMarket supply and deregulation
“The new proposed city plan will not decrease homelessness. The cost of land will rise as developers compete to acquire property.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- Opinion: Proposed changes to DTES plan risk affordable housing for local residentsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Dec 3, 2025
- Downtown Eastside Residents Didn’t Ask for This Plan | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jul 17, 2025
- Ken Sim Is Wrong. We Need More Supportive Housing, Not Less | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jan 28, 2025
- ‘Social Housing’ Is Leaving Low-Income People Out in the Cold | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Sep 9, 2024
- Why DULF’s Founders Deserve Awards, Not Arrests | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Nov 20, 2023
- Day of Decision for Broadway Corridor Tenant Protection | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Mar 27, 2023
- Will Vancouver's Unhoused Residents Lose 98 Units of Decent Housing? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Mar 15, 2023
- Vancouver Needs Vacancy Controls | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Feb 12, 2023
- Jean Swanson: Vancouver Plan needs more specifics on affordable housing and tenant protectionsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 21, 2022
- Jean Swanson: Cities should have more input into the police budgets they pay forOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Apr 26, 2022
- Jean Swanson: Mansion tax for top one-per-cent property owners would be fairer for the rest of usOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 20, 2022
- Jean Swanson: Full rent control key to saving Vancouver’s last-resort housingOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 9, 2020
- Jean Swanson: Full rent control key to saving Vancouver’s last-resort housingOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 9, 2020
- How ‘vacancy control’ could help solve Vancouver’s rental nightmare | The StarOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 12, 2019
- If We Can Affirm Rights of Animals, Why Not of the Homeless? | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · May 29, 2019
- Coun. Jean Swanson: Instead of tax breaks for business, let's protect neighbourhood stores and rentersOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 16, 2019
- Why We Can’t Do the Welfare Food Challenge This Year | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Nov 5, 2018
- Jean Swanson and Anne Roberts: Here's why we need a Mansion TaxOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jul 17, 2018
- Why I Got Arrested Protesting the Kinder Morgan Pipeline | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jul 10, 2018
- A National Housing Strategy to Maintain Homelessness for Decades to Come | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Nov 29, 2017
- Too Little, Too Late for Vancouver’s Housing U-Turn | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Aug 8, 2017
- East Van to MLA Sultan: Raising Welfare Rates 'Opposite of Dead End' | The TyeeOpinion · The Tyee · Jan 27, 2016