News Items tag as: Affordable housing

Princeton families suffering with rental housing crunch
March 14, 2021 - 8:00 PM

A Princeton family is feeling the pressure of the town’s less than 1% rental vacancy rate as they desperately search for a home that’s big enough to support them.
Two affordable housing complexes to be built on Westbank First Nation land
January 31, 2020 - 11:18 AM

Indigenous families, individuals and elders will soon have new affordable rental homes in their community as the Westbank First Nation and provincial government partner to build homes on the Westbank reserve.
Helping homeless people in Kelowna is about overcoming the "fear factor"
January 18, 2019 - 2:00 PM

KELOWNA - To hear some people speak, it was all Kelowna City Council’s fault that the Agassiz supportive housing was even proposed.
Hundreds more rental apartments planned for Kelowna
January 11, 2019 - 3:05 PM

KELOWNA - Kelowna city council is being asked to forego $320,000 in taxes to help build 395 new rental housing units in 2019.
Supportive housing killed plans to relocate shelter
November 30, 2018 - 3:00 PM

KELOWNA - Putting an emergency shelter in the same block as a supportive housing complex is the reason Inn From the Cold may have to close for good in its current location in January.
Pathways Abilities Society wants to replace bike shop with six-storey housing complex in Kelowna
November 29, 2018 - 3:29 PM

KELOWNA - An affordable housing project could replace a building used to help Kelowna residents with disabilities since the 1950s.
Construction underway for new Kamloops affordable housing complex
November 14, 2018 - 3:25 PM

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops development company has been working for the last two weeks to clear the vacant lot behind Spirit Square on the city’s North Shore to begin construction of a new affordable housing development.
New affordable rental housing coming to Kamloops, Okanagan
November 13, 2018 - 3:27 PM

The province has announced funding for 4,900 new affordable rental homes across the province, including several cities in B.C.'s Interior.
UPDATE: Kelowna to get women’s supportive housing units
October 26, 2018 - 1:43 PM

KELOWNA – The provincial government has announced that Kelowna is one of a dozen B.C. cities that will benefit from the first phase of a 10-year, $7.34 million Building BC: Women's Transition Housing Fund.
Affordable housing topic of upcoming stakeholder networking opportunity in Kamloops
September 14, 2018 - 3:00 PM

KAMLOOPS - The B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association will be hosting an event in Kamloops next week to discuss affordable housing in the Interior.
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News Items tag as: Affordable housing

Princeton families suffering with rental housing crunch

Two affordable housing complexes to be built on Westbank First Nation land

Helping homeless people in Kelowna is about overcoming the "fear factor"

Hundreds more rental apartments planned for Kelowna

Supportive housing killed plans to relocate shelter

Pathways Abilities Society wants to replace bike shop with six-storey housing complex in Kelowna

Construction underway for new Kamloops affordable housing complex

New affordable rental housing coming to Kamloops, Okanagan

UPDATE: Kelowna to get women’s supportive housing units

Affordable housing topic of upcoming stakeholder networking opportunity in Kamloops

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