Lack of B.C. affordable housing chasing away the people who could build it
Slow-changing institutions and unaffordable housing are worsening B.C.’s shortage of qualified construction workers, according to industry insiders.
Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimates that B.C. is set to fall well short of building the number of houses it needs to reach housing affordability, even when affordability is defined as 44 per cent of average monthly income in B.C. – in most provinces it’s 30 per cent. “When you build a home a certain way in, let’s say, Colwood or wherever, and then you try to build that same home in Saanich, you get different interpretations of the building code, you have two different things. Why is that? Because you have a different municipal culture, and they interpret the building code differently. That all adds to costs, delays, costs, expense.”
“The biggest hurdle with respect to it’s not so much the funding and all the rest of it, it’s actually being able to ensure that in the education system, young people have the opportunity to understand what it’s like to be in the trades and the opportunities there.”
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