The city and the province, between them, managed to build Vancouver’s first 600 modular homes without a lot of support from the federal government. They’ll hope for more help on the nex…
Sometimes, after a formerly homeless person has moved from living in parks, shelters or on the streets, and into a temporary modular-housing unit, they’ll sleep on the floor for the first little while.
The City of Vancouver provided land for the 10 sites, spread through the west side, east side and downtown. Although the city could’t provide an estimate for the combined value of those parcels of land, everyone knows land in Vancouver isn’t cheap. Last month, in a one-on-one interview shortly before the B.C. 2019 budget was delivered, Stewart threw the focus to Ottawa, calling the recently announced $1.5-million contribution as “pretty low.”
City Coun. Jean Swanson, who introduced a motion late last year calling for another 600 modular homes, was a bit more blunt, as is her way. In Swanson’s assessment, the federal government’s funding support for housing so far has been “a joke.”Details weren’t available about any planned federal funding for future modular housing in B.C. But in an emailed statement Valerie Glazer, press secretary for the federal minister of Families, Children and Social Development, wrote that between Nov.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Shelter groups rescue 630 dogs stacked in crates at Georgia homeThanks to the coordination of multiple animal shelter organizations, 630 neglected dogs were rescued from a single breeder’s home in Georgia.
Read more »
B.C. boating group predicts compliance as derelict boat act gets royal assentIt’s estimated there are more than 600 derelict vessels — ranging from giant commercial ships to small recreational boats — polluting Canadian waterways.
Read more »
Large loft in downtown Toronto sells after two price dropsThis custom 2,627-square-foot unit with a 600-square-foot terrace off the second-floor den is in a converted Sears warehouse near Ryerson University
Read more »
Vancouver unveils new supportive housing units to help homelessness crisisThe 52 new homes are the latest of the more than 2,000 units the province committed to building in the fall of 2017 — 600 of them in partnership with the City of Vancouver
Read more »
City of Vancouver, province open Nora Hendrix Place modular homesThe 52-unit housing project honours a woman who was a pillar of the early Vancouver black community, which was centred in Strathcona.
Read more »
Dan Fumano: Minister 'monitors' Vancouver rental challenges, landlords want action“It’s a lot more cost-effective to have me continue to provide that below-market, family rental housing … than it is for them to go and build it.”
Read more »
Dan Fumano: 'Yeast Van' breweries next victim of soaring property taxes?“It’s been suggested by multiple people that I should move out … to Port Coquitlam or Port Moody maybe, and just give up on Vancouver, which I really don’t want to do.&8221…
Read more »
Whitecaps look for the next stage of their evolution after dropping home openerDarwin Quintero shredded the Whitecaps Saturday in Minnesota’s 3-2 win, but it’s not all doom and gloom for the VWFC.
Read more »
Vancouver councillors support empty-homes tax despite dubious resultsAlmost 1,100 homes in Vancouver were removed altogether from the rental market in the first year of the city’s empty-homes tax, agency that tracks Canada’s housing statistics noted
Read more »