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Poll results: Many Richmond News readers suspect city's rental zone policies won't work

Many Richmond News readers who responded to the poll feel developers will find a loophole
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Many Richmond News readers who responded to the poll feel developers will find a loophole

Richmond News polled 418 Richmond News readers and asked the question: Do you think rental-only zoning policies will help with the rental situation in Richmond?

The poll ran from 1/12/2022 to 1/17/2022. Of the 418 votes, we can determine that 140 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, we need more 45.00 % local, 39.00 % total    
Maybe, for the time being 15.00 % local, 14.35 % total    
No, there is always another loophole somewhere 40.00 % local, 46.65 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.79%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.