{"id":8124,"date":"2026-04-21T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7620685"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:10:30","slug":"penticton-councillor-calls-for-another-supportive-housing-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/news\/8124\/penticton-councillor-calls-for-another-supportive-housing-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Penticton councillor calls for another supportive housing audit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Penticton city councillor wants another audit of the city&#8217;s supportive housing sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coun. Shannon Stewart proposed an independent audit to review five supportive housing programs in Penticton to compare to another completed four years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That one was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/releases\/2022AG0076-000769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completed in 2022 and while it found residents of three supportive housing sites benefited from having permanent housing<\/a>, the city lacked affordable options for those residents to move into afterward, while less than half the residents surveyed saw improvements to health, addiction issues and employment access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stewart&#8217;s motion calls for an evaluation of &#8220;program delivery and overall operational effectiveness&#8221; and an examination on impacts in surrounding neighbourhoods, along with potential areas of improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s similar to efforts made by Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, who has long called for a similar review and was inspired by the previous audit done in Penticton. His calls, however, had long been stifled by city council until last November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Kamloops city council voted in favour a similar motion Hamer-Jackson put forward, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/news\/7414800\/kamloops-mayor-claims-victory-refuses-to-play-nicely\/\">changed to review BC Housing sites across the province<\/a>, rather than simply focus on Kamloops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Penticton city council will debate Coun. Stewart&#8217;s motion, April 21, but it will be up to the province to decide on whether to commission the review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pitched as a follow-up to a 2022 audit that examined the progress of three supportive housing sites in Penticton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1680,541,543],"tags":[],"region":[322,323,324,325],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"post_modified":"2026-04-21T09:10:30","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:10:30","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/inhome-hd-mediaitemid19322-5968.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}