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New Saanich policy to require developers to help displaced tenants

New Saanich policy to require developers to help displaced tenants

For all rezoning applications that result in permanent displacement of five or more tenant households, the applicant would have to offer relocation help and the right to a new suite at a discounted rate
More than 100 DTES homeless will move to ‘ultra-trendy’ South Granville

More than 100 DTES homeless will move to ‘ultra-trendy’ South Granville

Residential tower is ‘Just steps from the ultra-trendy South Granville shopping district, with a mix of high end fashion boutiques, home furnishing stores, cafés and restaurants’
CAPREIT CEO endorses Eby's $500M rental-buy plan

CAPREIT CEO endorses Eby's $500M rental-buy plan

Canada’s largest landlord offers to sell hundreds of its older “affordable” units to the B.C. government and non-profits
Comment: The inevitable rise of the permanent renter

Comment: The inevitable rise of the permanent renter

The percentage of Canadian renters has increased at three times the rate of homeowners over the past decade and shows no sign of slowing
PART 2: B.C. social housing: non-profit programs with promise

PART 2: B.C. social housing: non-profit programs with promise

This is the last of a two-part Western Investor special report on the millions of dollars in government spending, which is meant to provide affordable housing for the most vulnerable in British Columbia
Comment: City change to Broadway Plan will slow pace of rental housing

Comment: City change to Broadway Plan will slow pace of rental housing

Vancouver staff recommendation to allow only five new development proposals per year flies in the face of earlier plans – and the city’s desperate need for more rental units
Blinded by billions: a look at spending on social housing in B.C.

Blinded by billions: a look at spending on social housing in B.C.

This is an update on the first of a two-part Western Investor report on ballooning government housing support for the most vulnerable in British Columbia.
Opinion: B.C. Rental Protection Fund is really a rental destruction plan

Opinion: B.C. Rental Protection Fund is really a rental destruction plan

Amid a severe housing shortage, the B.C. government is spending $500 million of taxpayer money not to build rental housing, but to stop people who want to build it
Calgary’s low equity, high cash flow attracts landlord investors

Calgary’s low equity, high cash flow attracts landlord investors

Multi-family market conditions ‘not seen since Alberta’s last economic boom,’ says CMHC analyst.
Delivering new Metro Vancouver rentals now ‘next to impossible’

Delivering new Metro Vancouver rentals now ‘next to impossible’

Changes will be needed in 2023 to accommodate high costs, interest rates and competitive government programs to meet immigration and housing targets, builders say