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Premier releases details on Keremeos affordable housing project
June 26, 2019Read more“People shouldn’t be forced to leave the communities they call home to find the affordable housing they need,” said Premier John Horgan. “That is why we are working hard to build affordable homes in Keremeos and other small, hardworking communities throughout B.C.” The Lower Similkameen Community Services Society is receiving $4.1 million from the province’s Building BC: Community Housing Fund
LRT development is causing a decrease in affordable housing
June 25, 2019Read more“There is also a huge need for good quality affordable housing for low-income residents who are already living downtown, in particular in downtown Kitchener. I don’t see that that type of housing within the downtown core even along the central transit corridor is part of the vision moving forward.” Read more
CIH kicks off Housing 2019 with call for government to definitely end housing crisis
June 25, 2019Read moreChartered Institute of Housing chief executive Terrie Alafat CBE has opened the Housing 2019 conference with a call for the government to fund a 10-year programme to build around one and a half million social homes to rent, as well as shared ownership properties to buy across the country. This would cost £12.8 billion per year and would take spending
Government of Canada Invests in Women’s Shelter in Toronto
June 24, 2019Read moreToday in Toronto, Michael Levitt, Member of Parliament for York Centre, on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), announced a $4.96 million financial commitment from the federal government for the HER Build in North York, to be operated by North York Women’s Shelter
‘affordability’ gaps
June 24, 2019Read moreOTTAWA — Despite billions of dollars in new spending over the last four years, the federal Liberals’ social-development minister concedes that seniors and families seeking housing and child care are still facing serious cost crunches. The numbers on Canada’s economic growth — increases in median wages and job numbers, and decreases in people living in poverty — have been positive enough