'Half a decade and a quarter-of-a-billion-dollars later, it is absurd to keep blaming the last party in power.'
“We are unfortunately still paying a price for a housing market that for more than a decade worked very well for big corporations and wealthy speculators,” Eby said Wednesday while announcing 90 new modular shelter spaces to try and clear tent encampments at Crab Park and on Hastings Street.
Half a decade and a quarter-of-a-billion-dollars later, it is absurd to keep blaming the tents on Hastings Street today on the last party in power. But that doesn’t stop the governing party from trying. The phrasing of “different choices” would come back to bite the NDP in the political rear end not 24 hours later, when the premier found himself admitting to what the real problem is: A lack of money. Specifically, from his own government.
Perhaps one reason the demand is so massive is that the government is making “different choices” on the provincial budget that don’t involve giving BC Housing the cash it needs to, say, actually build enough affordable housing to meet demand, help low-income people and ensure enough shelter beds are being created.
Burnaby has had 1,200 units of affordable housing turned down by BC Housing. Port Coquitlam couldn’t get support for a 300-unit rental project approved either. Across the province, municipalities have applied for financial support for more than 13,000 housing units, but only 2,400 were approved by BC Housing. The problem? Again, a lack of money. From the current NDP government.
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