September 18, 2025
The Carney administration’s new housing agency – Build Canada Homes – plans to focus on building affordable homes, leveraging efficiencies in factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber to build faster on public lands. With an initial capitalization of $13 billion, the new agency will partner […]
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: […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
