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Affordable housing coming to Kelowna’s downtown near proposed UBCO campus
Nestled next to the proposed UBC Okanagan downtown campus will be a six-storey, 68-unit affordable…

Rough rollout out for feds new dental care plan in Kamloops, Okanagan
A new Canadian dental plan has been slowly rolling out over the past six months…

$31M from feds will do little to deal with Kelowna’s housing affordability crisis
As the first BC city to get money out of the federal Housing Accelerator Fund,…

Okanagan residents flee high prices to relocate to Alberta
For most of the past decade the flow of Albertans to BC far outpaced the…

Kelowna builder making home ownership more affordable by going small
It’s not often that a brand new home can be bought for less than $300,000…

Kelowna, Kamloops among few Canadian cities with homes under $200,000
There was a time when it was not unusual to find a nice single-family house…

BC Housing turning old motels into hundreds of affordable homes in Penticton
Over the next few years three old motels and an apartment building in Penticton are…

Want a good deal on a house in the Thompson-Okanagan? Try Clinton or Keremeos
Everyone knows the Central Okanagan has the highest housing prices in the Interior of BC.…

Rec centres or affordable housing? Kelowna council needs to get its priorities straight: builder
Earlier this week Kelowna city council adopted a staff plan on how to spend a…

Single mom in Kamloops separated from babies for lack of affordable housing
A single mother in Kamloops put her toddlers in temporary foster care this past month…

Kelowna mobile home park residents want their rights considered by developer
Given the huge demand for new housing in Kelowna, developers are moving in to buy…

New car-free housing in Victoria helps save money and the planet
An innovative housing plan can bring down the price of a newly built three-bedroom home…

Kamloops, Kelowna could learn about housing affordability from this Lower Mainland city
While Kamloops and the Okanagan struggle with a shortage of affordable rental housing, some Lower…

Why this Okanagan city can’t get affordable housing in new highrises
While controversy swirls around rental affordability in a 25-storey downtown Kelowna highrise, the next project…

Controversial downtown Kelowna rental highrise developer painted himself into a corner
The latest controversy around the proposed redevelopment of the former RCMP site in downtown Kelowna…