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Canucks owners interested in Olympic Village
Could the owners of the Vancouver Canucks add the Olympic Village to their real estate portfolio? Read more…
- 2010 Olympics and
- Housing
Do You Think Naheed Nenshi Will Win the Alberta NDP Leadership Race?
Do you think Trudeau will survive the next election? Read the results of that poll here.
Nearly-homeless population faces dangerous health conditions: study
Some new tracking of people who are one step away from being homeless reveals a large population rife with mental illness, hunger and chronic health problems. Read more…
City of Vancouver puts troubled Olympic Village into receivership
The City of Vancouver announced Wednesday that Ernst and Young was assuming control of the Millennium Southeast False Creek Properties and the Millennium Water development. Read more…
Honour House to open for Remembrance Day
Honour House officially opens at 2:00 p.m. on November 10, meeting the goal set by its founder, Allan De Genova, a year ago. The New Westminster facility will offer a place to stay for members of the Canadian Forces and first responders while receiving care in the Metro Vancouver area. Read more…
Metro Vancouver immigration gets animated
The patterns of immigrant settlement that have shaped Metro Vancouver have been brought to life. Read more…
SFU prof designs homelessness teaching resource for B.C. high schools
In the province with Canada’s “poorest postal code” and poorest families, a UBC economics professor thinks it’s time B.C. high schools began teaching their students about the economics of homelessness. Read more…
Canadian business to lobby Harper on homelessness
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce will lobby the Harper government for a national plan to end homelessness, having passed a resolution brought by the Burnaby Board of Trade. Read more…
Government regulations add to housing costs: minister
Government regulations drive up the cost of housing in British Columbia, housing and social development minister Rich Coleman told delegates to the Union of B.C. Municipalities conference in Whistler this morning.
“Every dime we put on someone's shoulders is a piece of a mortgage that they're carrying that they have to pay and something else in the household will have to give way,” he said. Read more…
Problems with government phone line amount to 'negligence': advocate
A change to the housing and social development ministry's phone system has made it even harder to get help, said Renée Ahmadi, an advocate with the Action Committee of People with Disabilities.
“The word negligent comes to mind,” said Ahmadi. Read more…
Olympic Village woes continue
The scheduled Saturday marketing relaunch of the Olympic Village is on hold until sometime in October as the future of its developer seems foggy. Read more…
- 2010 Olympics and
- Housing
Infamous Vancouver hotel set to return
Sitting vacant since 2006, the American Hotel at 928 Main Street used to conjure up tall tales – many true – about decrepit living conditions, drug-dealing building managers and regular assaults on drug-addicted tenants. Read more…
Housing numbers mask lack of new units: CCPA report
Homelessness has grown in British Columbia because of a failure of the federal and provincial governments to build new social housing units, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read more…
Homeless shelter in Kamloops gets a makeover
The Ministry for Human Resources and Skills Development announced today that it will finance improvements to a youth homeless shelter in Kamloops. Read more…
Councillors heed to residents, shrink social housing complex
Vancouver city councillors heeded the call of concerned Mount Pleasant residents at a council meeting Tuesday afternoon to scale back a contentious East Broadway social housing complex to eight storeys. Read more…
West End group to city: more communication needed
City councillors’ failure to consider public input about contentious housing development proposal in Vancouver poses a serious threat to neighbourhoods across the city, a West End resident says. Read more…
Social housing activists hold sit-in at former Olympic athletes village
Housing advocates staged a short-lived sit-in at the former site of Vancouver's Olympic athletes' village on Thursday to protest the lack of affordable and social housing in the massive condo development. Read more…
- 2010 Olympics and
- Housing
City to consider modular housing pilot
Vancouver city councillors will receive a motion next week that calls for the exploration of modular housing projects as a way of addressing Vancouver’s affordable housing needs. Read more…
Canada short changes mental health care: Kirby
"Mental health and addiction represent roughly 35 per cent of the disease burden in Canada, yet these illnesses receive only about 5 per cent of the resources," former Senator Michael Kirby told a conference on Health of the Homeless. Read more…
'Home of the Future' needs a new home
BC Hydro is looking for the right organization to haul away its super-green shipping container home. Read more…
- Housing and
- Environment
NDP pushes renters' rights bills
Provincial New Democrats have proposed three private members' bills that, if passed, would strengthen tenants' rights. Read more…
- BC Politics and
- Housing