
Verdant affordable housing development at UniverCity. Sketch provided by reSource Rethinking Building.
HomesNow
HomesNow Recommends Action on Affordable Housing
July 02, 2013
HomesNow has released a report outlining the barriers municipalities must overcome to create affordable housing for residents with low to mid-level incomes in Greater Vancouver. These include competing demands for municipal funding, disagreements about government jurisdiction, and a lack of a political consensus over subsidizing housing for any but low income households.
HomesNow is a broad-based coalition of community and business partners convened by Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue. Read the full report.