Chloe Leslie
is Seeking Nomination for City Council with COPE.
✓ End Corporate Food Waste and Feed the People
✓ Expand Affordable Housing—Protect Renters
✓ Invest in Tool Libraries, Repair Cafes, & Arts Infrastructure
I’m running for City Council because I believe Vancouver can be a city where everyone can afford to live, work, and belong.
Through my work in food access and community advocacy, I’ve seen firsthand how rising costs are affecting residents across the city and how community-led solutions already exist. I want to bring that experience to City Hall and help build a more affordable and equitable Vancouver.
Bio
Chloe Leslie is a renter, proud CUPE member, and nonprofit professional who has spent the past seven years working alongside communities across Vancouver to strengthen food access and public services.
From coordinating citywide food redistribution partnerships to supporting initiatives in the Downtown Eastside, her work has focused on practical, community-driven solutions to everyday challenges.
Get to know Chloe.
Platform
Increase Food Access, Decrease Grocery Prices
1. End reliance on major grocery chains
Evidence shows that there are real solutions to high food costs. Expand school meal programs, support publicly owned grocery stores, and protect the low-cost grocers people rely on.
2. No more edible food in landfills
We can stop corporate food waste by holding corporations accountable for their waste and emissions, and invest in systems that get surplus food to people instead of landfills.
3. Support Urban Agriculture
There are real ways to grow more food locally. Expand access to private and City-owned land for urban farming, remove zoning and permitting barriers, and invest in Indigenous food sovereignty.
Food Justice - For Everyone
Affordable Housing — Real Tenant Protections
1. No More Empty Homes
Let’s stop homes from sitting empty for profit. We can require units to be rented or sold within six months, tax the vacant units, and invest that money in affordable housing. Housing should be lived in, not left empty while people sleep in the streets.
2. Affordability for all renters
Chloe will fight to grow affordable housing across the city. We’ll build affordable public housing on City-owned land, build social housing & deeply affordable housing in every neighbourhood, expand co-ops, and upgrade and replace SROs.
3. Prioritize policies for tenants
Over 50% of the city is renters- but politics is not working for us. Chloe will fight to introduce a landlord registry, prioritize development without tenant displacement, and bring back the renters office- with enforcement teeth.
Tool Libraries, Repair Cafes, & Arts Infrastructure
1. Support Sharing Economies
Tool libraries save money, reduce waste, and give everyone access to the tools they need for repairs, projects, and creative work. Let’s reduce our reliance on buying new items.
2. Right to Repair
Repair cafés bring people together to fix broken items, share skills, and keep goods out of landfills. Advancing our circular economy is essential to hitting Vancouver’s Zero Waste 2040 targets.
3. Arts & Culture as core city Infrastructure
Chloe will secure stable funding for artists and cultural spaces, activate City-owned properties for studios, galleries, and hubs, and support municipal artist residencies.
Public Transit & Bike Share
Chloe will fight for fast, reliable, and affordable transit.
She will fight for a pilot to make key bus routes fare-free.
She will fight to expand our bike share programs citywide and fund it properly so it’s affordable and accessible to everyone.
Better buses. Better bikes. Better ways to get around.
Advocating for the Downtown Eastside
For the past five years, Chloe has worked and organized in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), building deep relationships and learning directly from community members. Through this work, she has developed a strong understanding of the importance of harm reduction, the urgent need to end homelessness, and the realities of living in Single Room Occupancies (SROs). Chloe is a committed advocate for decriminalization, safe supply, and overdose prevention sites, and believes in the necessity of non-police responses to mental health crises,centering care, dignity, and autonomy for all.