Community Housing News

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: […]

$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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mayor’s Budget Task Force

2024-04-03T22:07:07+00:00January 21st, 2024|Categories: Community Housing News|

January 21, 2024

The Mayor’s Budget Task Force Report, which was taken as information by City Council, stresses the City must cut costs and find ways to increase revenues to limit overspending on infrastructure in the face of unsustainable property tax increases, and to maximize the value of […]

False Creek South is in CoV’s Strategic Priorities

2024-04-03T22:05:51+00:00December 2nd, 2023|Categories: Community Housing News|

December 2, 2023

Vancouver’s City Council released its Strategic Priorities for housing through 2026 – and it includes “advancing towards optimizing the number of housing units on City land in False Creek South.”

This strategic direction, plus the City’s creation of the Vancouver Housing Development Office to […]

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