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Affordable housing
Ten housing units planned for low-income elders: Tk’emlúps chief
A 10-unit housing complex headed to Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc is aimed for completion by September…
$10.8M for affordable Indigenous housing in B.C. Interior
Three Interior Indigenous communities will have 34 new affordable housing units built with new funding…
As Kamloops housing market pops, families stuck in the ‘middle’
Jade Sallows is in a bind. She has to find a new home in the…
Princeton families suffering with rental housing crunch
A Princeton family is feeling the pressure of the town’s less than 1% rental vacancy…
New affordable senior housing named after Kamloops HIV/AIDS advocate
A local advocate is being honoured with the naming of a new affordable housing development…
Habitat for Humanity set to build affordable homes in North Okanagan
The housing charity Habitat for Humanity Okanagan is set to build six homes in Lumby…
Two affordable housing complexes to be built on Westbank First Nation land
Indigenous families, individuals and elders will soon have new affordable rental homes in their community…
Governments can do more to make housing affordable, says Kelowna developer
While the provincial government’s role in providing affordable housing in the Central Okanagan was being…
CMHA propose 30 more affordable housing units for Vernon
Vernon could have 30 more units of affordable housing as the Canadian Mental Health Association…
Vernon council reject 56-unit housing development
VERNON – Vernon council has rejected a 56-unit housing development proposed for 20 Street. Council…
B.C. Housing takes blame for McCurdy house uproar: CEO
KELOWNA – The head of B.C. Housing took responsibility today for the huge public backlash…
Helping homeless people in Kelowna is about overcoming the “fear factor”
KELOWNA – To hear some people speak, it was all Kelowna City Council’s fault that…
Hundreds more rental apartments planned for Kelowna
KELOWNA – Kelowna city council is being asked to forego $320,000 in taxes to help…
Date set for public hearing on controversial Kelowna housing project
KELOWNA – A special public hearing will be held just for the controversial Agassiz supportive…
Supportive housing killed plans to relocate shelter
KELOWNA – Putting an emergency shelter in the same block as a supportive housing complex…
Pathways Abilities Society wants to replace bike shop with six-storey housing complex in Kelowna
KELOWNA – An affordable housing project could replace a building used to help Kelowna residents…
Construction underway for new Kamloops affordable housing complex
KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops development company has been working for the last two weeks to…
New affordable rental housing coming to Kamloops, Okanagan
The province has announced funding for 4,900 new affordable rental homes across the province, including…
UPDATE: Kelowna to get women’s supportive housing units
KELOWNA – The provincial government has announced that Kelowna is one of a dozen B.C.…
How the low vacancy rate in Kamloops has left this family homeless
KAMLOOPS – It’s been almost two months since Kamloops resident Sheena-Lynn Peacock, her boyfriend and…
Affordable housing topic of upcoming stakeholder networking opportunity in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – The B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association will be hosting an event in Kamloops next…
City and province team up to add more temporary supportive housing units in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – The province and the City of Kamloops are adding more services to help…
Pair of heavyweight homeless and affordable housing plans land before Kelowna council
KELOWNA – Not much opposition is expected to a pair of heavyweight housing strategies coming…
Family-size townhouses, apartment building recommended for Black Mountain by Kelowna planners
KELOWNA – A rezoning request for land off Highway 33 in Kelowna’s Black Mountain neighbourhood…