Advocate says reform is needed, but agency must keep flexibility to respond fast to housing crises
“We really do need all hands on deck,” Atkey said. “So it is concerning.”
Andy Yan, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, said the problems facing Atira and the lack of oversight by B.C.
Successive provincial governments, Yan said, have taken a reactive approach to the housing crisis, scrambling to “throw money into the problem” in the hopes of “tamping it down for another term” in office.
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