{"id":182,"date":"2026-06-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/what-does-it-mean-to-uplift-a-neighbourhood\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:51:15","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-uplift-a-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/what-does-it-mean-to-uplift-a-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to &#8220;uplift&#8221; a neighbourhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Johnston, Executive Director at Community Impact Real Estate, and Rebecca Bligh, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, came together for a fireside on what it means to &#8220;uplift&#8221; a neighbourhood \u2014 examining the tension between access and affordability, and the balance between personal dignity and urban development.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"video wrapper reveal-fx reveal-fx--translate-up\">\n    <div class=\"video-frame\">\n        <iframe\n            src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1214761857\"\n            title=\"Video player\"\n            loading=\"lazy\"\n            allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\n            allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Grounded in recent policy discussions in Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside, Steve and Rebecca unpacked the gap between policy intent and implementation, exploring how cities can support meaningful change while honouring the needs and aspirations of existing communities \u2014 especially low-income residents striving to lead full and rewarding lives.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Johnston and Rebecca Bligh explored what it means to &#8220;uplift&#8221; a neighbourhood \u2014 unpacking access, affordability, and dignity in Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside policy landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ueastories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}