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title: "Pete Fry describes plans for the first 100 days as Vancouver's mayor-elect"
description: "In his first major interview after the election, Pete Fry says the new council will reverse the pause on supportive housing, launch the CROW non-police response team, and keep the property tax increase above zero."
canonical_url: "https://voche.me/news/pete-fry-mayor-elect-interview-october-21"
last_updated: "2026-10-21T04:59:32.939Z"
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Three days after winning the mayor's race, Pete Fry told Daily Hive he plans to reverse the ABC administration's pause on supportive housing, launch two public safety programs from his campaign platform, and set a property tax increase above zero for 2027.

Daily Hive published the interview on October 21, 2026. The piece describes Fry as preparing to lead a council with no majority and seven first-time members.

## What the new council looks like

When the council is sworn in on November 2, 2026, its 11 seats will be held by five Green Party members including the mayor, four COPE councillors, one OneCity Vancouver councillor, and one ABC Vancouver councillor. No party holds a majority, according to Daily Hive.

Fry told Daily Hive he had already begun reaching out to COPE ahead of the inauguration. He said he has 31 motions prepared and wants to work through priorities with other parties before the first council meeting. "I don't intend to run a hyperpartisan council," he told Daily Hive, and he asked councillors to "drop their colors."

Fry also told the outlet he plans to retain city manager Donny van Dyk, who served under the ABC administration.

## Supportive housing and public safety

Among the first actions Fry described to Daily Hive: reversing the ABC administration's pause on using City land or money for new supportive housing and overdose prevention sites. Fry had committed to this reversal during the campaign, including at the Board of Trade debate on October 2.

Fry also told Daily Hive that launching the Community Safety Office and the CROW team are top priorities. CROW, which stands for Community Response Outreach Workers, would provide a 24-hour, seven-day non-police response for low-level, non-emergency calls. The Green Party announced both programs in September 2026. Fry's tracker on this site records the CROW team and the Community Safety Office as campaign commitments that have not yet started. See his [candidate page](/candidates/pete-fry) for the full list.

## The 2027 budget

Fry told Daily Hive the new council will not hold the property tax increase at zero percent. "We're definitely not going to be doing a zero," he said, citing inflationary pressures and arbitrated wage increases. He said there may need to be a "correction" and that he would provide "a lot of clarity on the budget" within the first 100 days.

The previous ABC council held the 2026 property tax increase at zero percent, a policy Fry had criticized during the campaign.

A voter watching the 2027 budget process can follow the new council's decisions at its first meetings after November 2, 2026, and track Fry's budget-related promises at [his candidate page](/candidates/pete-fry).

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