2021–2031 Collaborative Action Plan to Reduce and Prevent Poverty in Richmond: 2024–2025 Highlights

The City and its partners remain committed to addressing increasing community need by implementing initiatives that help reduce and prevent poverty in Richmond. The Poverty Reduction Plan outlines four strategic directions and 26 recommended actions that provide a comprehensive framework to strengthen these coordinated efforts through fostering enhanced partnerships, information sharing and collaboration. 2024-2025 Highlights Noteworthy progress has been made by the City and its partners towards advancing the priority actions outlined in the Poverty Action Plan. At the end of 2025, almost halfway through the Plan's time frame, all 26 recommended actions are either complete or have been initiated. Throughout 2024-2025, the City worked collaboratively with community partners to implement initiatives that reduce barriers to critical programs and services that promote economic resiliency, social inclusion and meeting basic needs. A summary of key highlights from 2024-2025 is outlined below: • The City worked in partnership with the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation and BC Housing to open Harbour House, a 25-unit affordable housing development for women and women with children who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Completed in 2025, this development was made possible through investment from all three levels of government. (Action 1.2) • In 2024, the Richmond Employment Resources Network in collaboration with the City and Richmond Public Library, launched Employment Connections: Programs and Supports for Jobseekers. Employment Connections is a free resource event designed to raise awareness of

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