● Kim Harless
Priorities.
Equity & Justice
Climate & Environment
Housing & Homelessness
Climate & Environment
“Our city has a policy—now let’s meet its goals.”
Kim supports:
Zero emissions for the city by 2040, if not sooner.
Require green building standards and assist families in transitioning to clean energy.
Center tribal knowledge and local ecology in zoning and planning.
“When my son was born, I realized our air quality would shape his childhood. That’s why I’m fighting to expand green spaces—for every family who wants their kids to breathe easy.”
Kim Harless
Championed Vancouver’s Climate Action Framework, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2040.
Embedded environmental justice and equity in all climate work, prioritizing investments in underserved areas such as tree canopy equity and climate-resilient infrastructure.
Supported electrification and clean energy production for community resiliency and autonomy during emergency events and climate-related disasters.
Led efforts to require air conditioning in all subsidized housing for climate resiliency during wildfire smoke events.
Advocated for Complete Streets where every transportation and mobility option is equally safe, reliable, and respected.
Led efforts for moratoriums on the construction of new problematic warehouses and the storage of bulk fossil fuels within the city limits
Why Kim?
Housing & Homelessness
“Homes are the foundation of community.”
Kim will help:
Grow the affordable housing fund—because voters said ‘yes’ to more funding.
Provide more opportunities for homeownership
Collaborate on compassionate, lasting solutions for homelessness.
“Like some of you, I’ve faced the anxiety of a no‑cause eviction notice. No one should live with housing instability, and personally, I believe housing should be a human right.”
-Kim Harless
Championed Prop 3 to expand the Affordable Housing Fund to $10M/year.
Led efforts to establish Safe Stay communities, expand and support the HART response team, and build a transitional shelter to open in 2026.
Declared a State of Emergency on Homelessness.
Advocated for anti-displacement strategies and tenant protections (e.g., rent stabilization, TOPA).
Promoted homeownership as stability, including plans to start a homeownership fair and to increase utilization of existing affordable housing and development funds for homeownership.
Advocated for anti-displacement strategies and equitable development, both incorporated in the draft update of the Comprehensive Plan.
Advocated for infill development, smart density, and flexible zoning to build up and not out to reduce and repair expensive suburban sprawl.
Supported and voted for the expansion of the Multi-Family Tax Exemption (MFTE) with added climate and safety criteria.
Actively worked to make MFTE more enticing to stimulate housing production; voted to waive developer fees for MFTE projects and allow delayed payment of impact fees.
Why Kim?
Equity & Justice
“Every policy must do right by everyone.”
Kim will:
Vote in alignment with just policies in budgeting, policing, and code enforcement.
Remove barriers to opportunity—because one‑size‑fits‑all programs fail our most vulnerable.
Elevate voices that are too often left out of decision‑making.
Framed all policy through intersectional equity (race, income, age, gender, disability, veteran status, etc.).
Elevated personal lived experience as a Two-Spirit, multi-racial, Indigenous, Chicana, single mother, and someone who journeyed from longtime renter to homeowner and from poverty to financial stability.
Advocated for community-driven planning, especially in historically underinvested areas.
Spearheaded efforts to create Vancouver’s first equity statement.
Advocated for compensating community members for their participation and expertise.
Actively mentored new BIPOC leaders and helped bridge them into public service.
Positioned herself as a listener, coalition-builder, and policy translator for communities.
Why Kim?
Public Safety
Why Kim?
Backed Propositions 2 and 4 for fire and police service funding.
Supported co-response models, trauma-informed care, and alternatives to armed enforcement.
Invested in body cams, drones, and non-lethal response options.
Remained candid about barriers while still working toward cultural change.
Endorsed civilian-led responses where appropriate and envisioned deeper reform as gun culture declines.
Advocated for diverting non-violent calls to trained civilian teams.
Balanced support for law enforcement with calls for accountability and cultural change.
Democracy Reform
Why Kim?
Championed Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and Proportional RCV.
Served on the Charter Review Commission and led the effort to put RCV on the ballot.
Framed democracy as Indigenous—“Democracy is Indigenous”—to counter whitewashed civic narratives.
Strongly advocated for putting districting on the ballot for voters to decide whether City Council should be districted.
Progressive Revenue & Economic Development
Why Kim?
Advocated for childcare access, workforce equity, and culturally relevant support for BIPOC entrepreneurs.
Critiqued regressive tax systems such as property and sales taxes that disproportionately affect working-class families more than the wealthy elite who are able to pay their equitable share.
Promoted economic development that keeps wealth local and pushes back against extraction by large chains.
Passed Vancouver’s first B&O tax to raise needed revenue while protecting small and micro businesses.
Serves on the board of Fourth Plain Forward, a BIPOC-focused Community Development Corporation (CDC) uplifting historically underserved business corridors.
Inclusive Development
Why Kim?
Supported removing parking minimums to let the market dictate parking needs, not outdated mandates that prevented more housing construction.
Advocated for Complete Streets, Safe Routes to School, and walkable urban design.
Prioritized public-private collaboration for projects that deliver both housing and community value.
Brought a development-within-community philosophy—not just growth for growth’s sake—and emphasized inclusive public engagement and co-creation of policies (e.g., Comprehensive Plan update).
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