City of Surrey's 2024-2028 Financial Plan

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS

INCLUSION

• Develop and begin to implement a plan to support the 3-year Housing Accelerator Fund initiative to increase non-market housing supply; • Develop and launch an Integrated Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy based on community input and engagement and raised awareness of social supports available in the community that increase community connection and wellbeing; • Work with the BC Housing and the federal government to secure funding

• Developing an Indigenous and Government Relations division to support enhanced relationships with First Nations and urban Indigenous partners as well as enhanced and productive relationships with other levels of government; • Complete the Surrey Homelessness Prevention and Response Plan to guide the City’s actions over the next five years; • Complete and launch the Social Infrastructure Strategy to identify priority issues and actions for the City to take with a specific focus on equity; • Complete a physical infrastructure inventory to determine if the City is receiving its equitable share of investment from the provincial and federal governments;

for additional supportive and affordable housing units; and

• Complete construction of the 30-unit modular youth housing project and begin construction on 60-unit co-ed supportive housing project.

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Relaunch the multi-agency SAFE 2.0 program to enhance resiliency for at-risk youth and their families; • Develop and implement a training program for Bylaws teams that respond to encampments;

• Continue to reduce risk for exploitation and vulnerability amongst Children and Youth At-Risk Table (“CHART”) clients; and • Continue to reduce risk of harm for Surrey Mobilization and Resiliency Table (“SMART”) clients.

City of Surrey | 2024—2028 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Social Infrastructure & Community Investments

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