{"id":8126,"date":"2025-06-11T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/news\/8126\/in-numbers-how-kamloops-okanagan-took-on-the-housing-crisis-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:56:01","slug":"in-numbers-how-kamloops-okanagan-took-on-the-housing-crisis-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/news\/8126\/in-numbers-how-kamloops-okanagan-took-on-the-housing-crisis-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: How Kamloops, Okanagan took on the housing crisis in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might hear that we\u2019re making some progress on the housing crisis, but if you\u2019re a renter you probably haven\u2019t felt it in your wallet yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon put out some housing numbers for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some figures are worth bragging about while others, not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>260: Housing starts in Penticton in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>28: Non-market, or below market cost, housing units started in Penticton in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20,300: Dollars in grants for affordable housing in Penticton in 2024, or roughly the equivalent of a month\u2019s rent for 20 people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>172: Housing units approved in Vernon in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>415: Is the five-year average of housing unit approval for Vernon, but the city says it\u2019s back on track in 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>449: New housing units were occupied in Kamloops in 2024, short of the 679 target set by the provincial government.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7,856: New housing units needed in Kamloops by 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2.8: Weeks to process a residential building permit in Kamloops in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1,599: Housing starts in Kelowna in 2024, down from 4,039 in 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1.5: Million in tax exemptions for purpose-built rentals in Kelowna in 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some figures are worth bragging about while others, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":8127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","_duplicate_post":false,"rank_math_canonical_url":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":null,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[706,704],"tags":[],"region":[547,548,549,550],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"post_modified":"2025-06-11T15:56:01","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:56:01","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/hd-mediaitemid40612-5630.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}