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Housing
Penticton supportive housing review finds housing affordability a top issue
Rent is too expensive in Penticton for some of it residents to be able to…
Could a tax on million dollar homes help fight B.C.’s housing affordability crunch?
An annual surtax on homes worth more than $1 million would affect less than 10%…
Kelowna group seeking unique answers to solving housing crisis
No one questions the fact that the Okanagan, and particularly Kelowna, has an affordable housing…
Effort to tackle affordable housing, poverty gears up in Central Okanagan
As local governments become more involved in providing affordable housing in the Central Okanagan, a…
Real estate sales in Okanagan, Kamloops record big drop in May
Real estate sales in Kamloops and the Okanagan took a significant drop last month compared…
Innovative homeless housing project almost filled to capacity on Kamloops’s North Shore
A controversial homeless shelter on Kamloops' North Shore is almost 80 per cent full after…
HOUSING CRISIS: Kind stranger rescues Kelowna couple and dog living in a car
– This story was originally published June 1, 2022. A Kelowna couple who have been…
Popular Okanagan mini golf course could become 500 homes
A popular Okanagan mini-golf course has closed and could become the site of 500 residential…
Month-over-month drop in real estate prices in Okanagan and Kamloops
While the latest home sales reports from the Association of Interior Realtors stress the number…
HOUSING CRISIS: Woman in Kelowna will be homeless after cancer treatment
A woman battling cancer is losing her temporary housing placement soon, and says she has…
HOUSING CRISIS: Penticton mom, daughter fighting cancer being evicted in two weeks
A single mom in Penticton is facing dire straits with nowhere to live in two…
Young people are struggling to afford to live in Kelowna
The average young person in Kelowna runs a $475 deficit each month just trying to…
Next big thing in recreational real estate are RV lots in Southern Interior
Higher interest rates may be cooling off the housing market but there’s a growing appetite…
Northbridge Hotel in Kamloops to be gutted, tenants out by fall
Tenants at the Northbridge Hotel in Kamloops have until Sept. 30 to find a new…
Planners for Kelowna’s Tolko site could look to this massive Burnaby project for ideas
On the surface, there’s not a lot of similarity between Kelowna’s lakefront and a Burnaby…