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BC Housing
Considerable flood damage to B.C. Housing-owned Kamloops motel delays repairs
When B.C. Housing purchased the Fortune Motel, it budgeted for more than $500,000 in repairs,…
Disabled Kamloops artist to burn paintings to protest high rent
Karla Pearce lives with an invisible disability and gets by with government assistance, but cost…
Public fears prolific offenders, not housing projects: Minister Eby
As the province tries to investigate how best to deal with repeat offenders committing property…
Kamloops motel reopens as supportive housing with 12 fewer beds than planned
B.C. Housing has repurposed a former hotel in Kamloops as supportive housing. Canadian Mental Health…
Penticton emergency cold weather shelter closes but no guarantee it’ll reopen
During the cold snap this past weekend, a temporary 30-bed overnight shelter was set up…
B.C. Housing buys another Kamloops motel
B.C. Housing bought the Lamplighter Motel in Kamloops, adding to its stock of housing in…
Kelowna family wins $1.75 million Lake Life dream home
Anokha Babu and her family "struck out" on finding a home within their budget multiple…
Homeless clients pool small donation for Kamloops volunteers
The Loop is preparing to serve holiday meals and pouring over what donations it might…
Subsidized housing to rise behind controversial North Kamloops hotel
B.C. Housing is set to build a six-storey subsidized housing project behind the City-owned Northbridge…
B.C. Housing buys fire-damaged Kamloops apartment building for $13M
B.C. Housing has purchased a North Kamloops apartment building for $13 million roughly two years…
BC Housing spending spree needs more transparency: Professor
B.C. Housing often spends three or four times the assessed value when it buys old…
Update on deadly Kelowna crane crash expected this week
An update of the July 12, 2021 crane collapse that killed five men in Kelowna…
BC Housing turning old motels into hundreds of affordable homes in Penticton
Over the next few years three old motels and an apartment building in Penticton are…
BC Housing buys another Kamloops motel
BC Housing has bought another Kamloops motel taking ownership of a building meant to give…
Realtor didn’t tell B.C. couple about expensive condo costs, gets fined
Omissions by a BC real estate agent cost his client $40,000 and now cost himself…