S p e c i a l F e a t u r e
The Social Sustainability Strateˆy is
intended to be a guideline for community
members to achieve a prosperous, higher
quality of life, and it consists of 127 actions
categorized into seven priorities: Meeting
Basic Needs, Celebrating Diversity and
Culture, Getting Involved, Learning For
Life, Enhancing Neighbourhoods, Getting
Around and Protecting Our Community.
The strateˆy will guide the city's
decisions and allocation of resources for
the next decade, and also serve as a tool
to help residents take action to combat
social problems such as declining housing
a•ordability, aging populations, high-risk
youth behavior and unemployment.
Even though these three strategies are
still relatively new, their outcomes are
already evident. For example, in alignment
FAST
FACTS
•
Burnaby is Canada's first Blue
Community, awarded by the Canadian
Union for Public Employees in 2011
for water conservation and protection
initiatives and policies.
•
Burnaby received the 2011 FCM
Sustainable Community Award
(in partnership with the Simon
Fraser University Community Trust)
for Integrated Neighbourhood
Development.
The Social Sustainability
Stratey is intended to be
a guideline for commu-
nity members to achieve a
prosperous, higher qual-
ity of life, and it consists
of 127 actions categorized
into seven priorities includ-
ing, Meeting Basic Needs,
Celebrating Diversity and
Culture, Getting Involved,
Learning for Life and
Protecting Our Community
