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False Creek South’s Community Housing Trust in the Globe & Mail + Vancouver Sun

2025-02-20T23:02:32+00:00February 20th, 2025|Categories: Community Housing News|

February 20, 2025

Keith Jones, a director of the False Creek South Community Housing Trust, outlines how housing can work for the benefit of communities when they’re part of this rental affordability mechanism that is widely used in cities like Toronto but not in Vancouver.

>> Read the Vancouver Sun op-ed: […]

Vancouver prioritizes new market-rate housing on public land, while Burnaby focuses on non-market

2025-02-20T23:00:10+00:00February 7th, 2025|Categories: External Housing News|

February 7, 2025

The City of Vancouver is piloting a project that will see the City build and also manage new market-rate buildings on City-owned land, beginning with 54- and 40-storey towers at Pacific and Hornby streets. The focus on market rents, extending now to public land, […]

$4 million contract awarded for False Creek South technical study and development plan

2025-02-20T23:01:58+00:00January 22nd, 2025|Categories: Community Housing News|

January 22, 2025

Arup Canada, which currently has no Vancouver office, was awarded a $4-million contract by the City of Vancouver to execute a two-year development plan and technical study of False Creek South. This is a critical component of the Real Estate Department’s […]

Vancouver Host Nations/Provincial partnership to sell leasehold condos 40% below market

2024-09-26T20:59:06+00:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: External Housing News|

September 23, 2024

Vancouver’s Host Nations have partnered with the Province to build 2,600 leasehold condos that will be (initially) sold at 40 percent below market rate prices to first-time homebuyers. The leases for these units – in the Heather Lands on Vancouver’s Heather Street between West […]

City restarts Landowner’s Plan for FCS

2024-07-18T21:17:00+00:00July 18th, 2024|Categories: Community Housing News|

July 17,2024

The City of Vancouver’s Real Estate Department is restarting the Comprehensive Landowner’s Development Plan for False Creek South, with the project aiming to begin in December 2024. According to City documentation, the project will focus first on technical requirements, including infrastructure, soil remediation, and sea […]

Province’s Rental Protection Fund saves below-market seniors’ housing

2024-07-18T21:17:34+00:00July 18th, 2024|Categories: External Housing News|

July 17, 2024

The Province’s Rental Protection Fund has invested $6.25 million in saving 50 affordable seniors’ rental homes, where the average rent is 45 percent below-market and where half of the residents are 75 years of age or older. The building, […]

Feds create $1.5 billion Co-operative Housing Development Program

2024-06-10T20:57:08+00:00June 10th, 2024|Categories: External Housing News|

June 7, 2024

The federal government’s new $1.5 billion Co-operative Housing Development Program, co-developed with the sector, aims to build thousands of new co-op homes by 2028. The first round of applications for co-op […]

Feds create $1.5 billion Canada Rental Protection Fund

2024-04-05T23:08:08+00:00April 5th, 2024|Categories: External Housing News|

April 5, 2024

Similar to the Province of B.C.’s $500-million Rental Protection Fund, Ottawa has unveiled a national version to protect existing rental units. The national fund – called the Canada Rental Protection Fund – has $1 billion available in loans and nearly […]

Feds kick in $6 billion for housing

2024-04-05T23:07:53+00:00April 2nd, 2024|Categories: External Housing News|

April 2, 2024

The federal government has created a new $6-billion Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund – but B.C. must meet certain conditions, including building more housing for the middle class, which B.C. has already committed to with its new BC Builds program.

Provinces and territories have until […]

Cllr Kirby-Yung’s Motion on False Creek South

2024-04-05T23:05:24+00:00March 27th, 2024|Categories: Community Housing News|

March 13, 2024

This Motion, entitled the Future of Co-op Housing – A Path to Delivering More Co-op Homes in Vancouver, specified three items directly related to False Creek South. These were strengthened, however, by amendments suggested to Cllr Kirby-Yung by RePlan, including:

  1. Prioritizing building new co-op housing […]

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