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Affordable housing
Kelowna group hoping better data will help solve homelessness
Ask 10 people how to ease the growing homelessness crisis in Kelowna and beyond and…
Why homelessness will only get worse in the Okanagan, Kamloops
It’s no surprise to Stephanie Gauthier that there’s an ever-increasing number of people living on…
Four Kelowna highrises will feed more than $2 million into affordable housing fund
If Kelowna city council approves four new towers at the Waterscapes development downtown it will…
‘Tried and tested’: Kamloops cooperative to provide affordable housing in midst of crisis
A new housing initiative has emerged in Kamloops in response to the housing crisis with…
Thousands demand fairness for evicted mobile home communities
Thousands of Kelowna and West Kelowna residents have signed a petition demanding fair treatment for…
Construction of new affordable rental housing underway in Osoyoos
The Osoyoos Indian Band has partnered with the provincial government to build affordable on-reserve rental…
Kelowna plans to hand over city land in exchange for affordable housing
Kelowna city council has plans to lease city-owned land to developers at minimal cost in…
HOUSING CRISIS: Penticton considering new pilot program for affordable housing
As communities throughout the Thompson-Okanagan region struggle to get home built in the midst of…
New affordable Indigenous housing opens in Vernon
Phase 2 of an affordable Indigenous housing project in Vernon will provide 35 new homes.…
Big waitlist for affordable housing in Vernon
VERNON - A new affordable housing building in Vernon is already proving its value. Roughly 60 applications have already been received from people wanting to live at Blair Apartments, John Howard Society of the North Okanagan executive director Barbara Levesque says. Previously known as the Journey Inn, the 38-unit apartment building is now owned by...
Thousands of Thompson-Okanagan renters mired in affordable housing crisis, new index says
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - About a quarter of all renters in the Thompson-Okanagan are facing an affordable housing crisis, according to a new study. The new Canadian Rental Housing Index is an interactive map which offers a snapshot of rental housing conditions across the country. You can search by city or electoral area riding, and find the...
New affordable housing units in the works for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - There are 98 new affordable housing units coming to Kamloops as work continues on the city's homelessness action plan. "Let's get building houses," Health Minister Terry Lake, who was on hand with Transportation Minister Todd Stone and Mayor Peter Milobar for the announcement, says. Milobar calls this announcement the perfect way to celebrate...
Rentals in Vernon more expensive and harder to find, report suggests
VERNON - It’s a harsher market in Vernon for those looking to rent and a community outreach worker says it’s even worse than the statistics suggest. The vacancy rate of available rental units dropped to 3.4 per cent in April 2015, down from 4.1 per cent the same time last year, according to the Canada...
One homeless man’s long road to finding affordable housing in Vernon
“I HAD TO ASK FOR HELP. IT WAS EITHER THAT, OR I’D STILL BE HOMELESS” VERNON - For the last 10 years, Roy You has lived on and off the streets. He travelled far from the Splatsin First Nation reserve where he grew up, searching for work in different places, never staying long. Many nights...
Affordable housing project finally breaks ground
KAMLOOPS - Construction of an affordable housing complex project in downtown Kamloops is finally underway more than a year after land preparations first began. The building sits alongside the Kamloops United Church at 429 St. Paul St. and will house 56 units, 41 of which will fall under the affordable housing banner. Construction is set...