William Azaroff (he/him)
@wazaroff
Community housing leader & city builder. Running for Mayor with OneCity Vancouver. Find out more and join our campaign:
Because good neighbours make good business. Read the first part of OneCity’s Local Economy Action Plan and take the LEAP with us. Let's build a Vancouver where you have a voice, a place, and a future. You can read more about our plan here: www.onecityvancouver.ca/goodbusiness 6/7
I believe Vancouverites will build great things when given the chance. The City shouldn't stop your dreams. We should make them possible! So you can serve your neighbours, safely and legally, close to where you live. 5/7
A @OneCityVan.bsky.social progressive government will: 🏠 Make home-based small business legal – for caregivers, newcomers, artists, and freelancers who can't afford prime commercial rents. 🔁 Allow more kinds of businesses in more neighbourhoods. 3/7
Today we’re announcing the first part of OneCity's Local Economy Action Plan: Good Business Starts at Home. We’ll legalize corner stores, home studios, small repair shops, and modest cultural spaces in neighbourhoods across the city, not just a handful of commercial streets. 2/7
Right now in Vancouver, if you want to open a bike repair shop in your alley? Illegal. Bakery from your back door? Illegal. Haircut in your spare room? You guessed it. Illegal.  That's ridiculous. So we're gonna fix it. 🧵1/7 #VanPoli #YVR #VancouverVotes2026 #GoodBusinessStartsAtHome
Vancouver can be, and must be, a community where we ambitiously lead on the issues closest to the lives of our neighbours. And where we stop making excuses for the poor decisions of political leadership that insists on throwing our collective future under the bus. 11/12
⚡ Save Vancouverites money. Clean cooling & heating should be cheaper than gas. We'll top-up Hydro solar & battery incentives, restore replacement requirements for aging gas equipment, establish a low-income retrofit program & expand thermal energy networks. Nerdy ways to save you cash. 9/12
🔧 Restore what ABC dismantled. A OneCity progressive government will move urgently to identify every climate rollback made under ABC and within the first three months of taking office. 7/12
A OneCity progressive government will make homes and public buildings safer in extreme heat, cheaper to run, and built for a long-term climate-resilient future. 2/12 We will deliver:
619 British Columbians died in the 2021 heat dome. It's our duty to never let it happen again. Today, OneCity is announcing Built to Last: our plan to make homes and public spaces safer in extreme heat, cheaper to run, and built for a long-term climate-resilient future. 🧵 1/12
Vancouver has some of the worst air quality in the world right now. So today, we're announcing the Cool, Clean Air, and Safe Spaces Strategy. One standard, applied to every school, every library, every community centre in Vancouver, whether it's run by Council, Park Board, or School Board. 🧵 1/11
I look forward to bringing a new momentum to the city - investing in housing, investing in childcare in every neighbourhood, speeding up the delivery of parks, swimming pools, and community centres to benefit the people. #vanpoli
I love being out in community with our neighbours hearing directly from them about their hopes and dreams for our city. It’s clear people are angry at Ken Sim’s casualty cruelty and are looking for real change. Thanks to everyone who joined us and took the time to chat!
Great to meet with @lanefab.com to talk about ways to add more beautiful missing middle housing in our city. Thanks for your time! #vanpoli
On air at 8:10 am with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social & @jmcelroy.bsky.social on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. Listen in!
On the picket line today supporting the our local nurses, including my sister, in their fight for fair wages, safer working conditions, and better benefits.
What an excellent way to spend a Sunday, out talking with Vancouverites about how we can elect a new progressive government in October and build a city where we can all belong. Thanks to our volunteers who joined us in the doors and everyone who made the time to talk with us! #vanpoli
Did you know that Metro Vancouver is one of the only regions in North America without a low-income transit pass?
I am proud to accept the endorsement of the Vancouver and District Labour Council. Every single Vancouverite deserves an affordable home, strong public services, a good job, and a living wage. We’ll return respect for workers to City Hall when we retake the Mayor’s Office on October 17 #vanpoli
Today, Ken Sim and ABC killed an overdose prevention site that Vancouver Coastal Health has been working towards for years. (1/6)
Voting opens today in the OneCity nomination - Vancouver's only contested mayoral nomination. If you're a supporter of mine, VOTE NOW! If you're undecided, read on 👇️
A day spent learning about how we can honour the legacy of Hogan’s alley as we build around false creek, and a night spent watching my son play at the Fox Cabaret with his band, The Incident.
Sophie Ngo and her husband spend three hours every day driving between Richmond and Vancouver just to drop off their two kids at different daycares. It is the only way they can find care. "I don’t know why it’s so hard," she says. She is right. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
I am excited to have Jenn McGinn supporting my bid for the OneCity mayoral nomination. Jenn and I were colleagues at Vancity for years. Having a former MLA in my corner means the world to me. Register to vote at the link in my bio!
Kate Hammer: who is the politician to watch for 2026? Richard Zussman: So, I think it's going to be William Azaroff. So, this is a guy who a lot of people may not be familiar with right now, but he may be the mayor of Vancouver in a year from now. Check out the full clip below!
Many thanks for the support Colin! If you haven’t yet, check out his book Vanbikes: Vancouver’s Bicycle People and the Fight for Transportation Change, 1986-2011.
I was proud to speak in support of @christineboyle.bsky.social's motion in 2022. Building non-market housing is expensive. Process and time both cost money - and costs kill developments. Ending rezoning requirements will mean more non-profit homes in our expensive city.