They say some of the blame lies with the province, whose regulatory regime causes delays and because the province is not ponying enough money up for affordable housing.
Their comments followed a brief meeting with Housing Minister David Eby, who gave the mayors little time to air their concerns.
Before the short session ended, Eby invited any mayors with concerns to contact him directly to speak one-on-one. Stewart also noted the community has 23,00 housing units in stream to be built, which is about 15 years of the communities’ normal development. At the brief session, Eby reiterated his concern that not enough housing of all types was being built to accommodate B.C.’s growing population.
Just 11,000 are complete and another 10,000 under construction since the program was launched in 2018.