B.C. Premier David Eby says issues around affordability ‘serious and on-going’ in commenting on report
The head of the association representing B.C. food banks said he hoped the province would have received a better grade from a report tracking poverty.“I would say that the grade itself is very concerning as it was last year and we were optimistic that we would see B.C. improving on that,” Dan Huang-Taylor, executive director of Food Banks BC, said.
Huang-Taylor said B.C.’s poverty rates partly reflect economic factors completely out of its control. “But we are also certainly looking at government policies that are currently inadequate to meet the needs of people, particularly those who are most impacted by poverty — people on fixed incomes, racialized communities and Indigenous peoples.”
The Poverty Report Canada gives B.C. a B for government efforts to address some poverty issues, especially when it comes to housing.
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