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Non-Partisan Association Coun. Melissa De Genova wants to see at least one new building go up in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that is entirely composed of core-need, rental housing.

In the motion presented to council Tuesday, De Genova called for staff to look at using budget surpluses, the city’s innovation fund, cash from the mayor’s office budget and unallocated development-cost levies, among other sources, to fund a 10- to 12-storey building on city-owned land in the DTES that would be dedicated solely to rental units at core-need rates.

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“In minutes of meetings held by council since Aug. 2, 2016, there is no motion by the mayor or any other member of council promising one building of housing at 100-per-cent, core-need rates in the Downtown Eastside,” De Genova wrote in her motion, which began with a reminder that Mayor Gregor Robertson had promised to end homelessness in the city by 2015.