Community Housing News
False Creek South’s Community Housing Trust in the Globe & Mail + Vancouver Sun
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 [...]
$4 million contract awarded for False Creek South technical study and development plan
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. [...]
City restarts Landowner’s Plan for FCS
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 [...]
Municipal and Provincial Housing News
Vancouver prioritizes new market-rate housing on public land, while Burnaby focuses on non-market
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 [...]
Vancouver Host Nations/Provincial partnership to sell leasehold condos 40% below market
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 [...]
Province’s Rental Protection Fund saves below-market seniors’ housing
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 [...]