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Housing crisis
iN VIDEO: Public safety top priority as new Kelowna homeless shelter prepares to open
One of the top concerns for Kelowna residents with the opening of a new homeless…
Couple with mental and physical health challenges living in pickup truck in Kelowna
Due to the housing and health-care crises, an Okanagan couple have been living in their pickup…
Unaffordable Kelowna home market has inspired these realtors to take action
Real estate sales is not just about making money. For an informal focus group in…
Record number of homeless people at Kelowna Rail Trail camp site
A record number of people are sleeping rough at Kelowna’s homeless camping site along the…
Kamloops motel reopens as supportive housing with 12 fewer beds than planned
B.C. Housing has repurposed a former hotel in Kamloops as supportive housing. Canadian Mental Health…
Kamloops resident forced to kick out terminal family member because of RV bylaw
A resident in Kamloops is angry and shaken after the City of Kamloops removed her…
Cost to rent one-bedroom apartment in Kelowna surges past $1,800 mark
The cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment in Kelowna jumped 5.8% in August versus July,…
Ontario homeless man and dog walking across Canada make it to Okanagan
A well-known Ontario homeless man who has written multiple books about his journey across Canada…
Kelowna edges out Kamloops for first complex care homes in B.C. Interior
Even though Kamloops seemed a shoe-in the get the first complex care housing in the…
Home prices dropping in Kamloops but rising in parts of the Okanagan
High interest rates have driven down housing prices across Canada including the southern Interior. Kamloops…
How Okanagan, Kamloops post-secondary students (and parents) can avoid rental scams
An extremely tight rental market means people are desperate to find places to live. That’s…
Cost of building carriage houses in Kelowna may go up $20,000
Already the most expensive city in the Interior of B.C. for housing, the City of…
Hundreds of students in need of homes in Kelowna
Hundreds of students are in need of housing for this upcoming school year amid a…
HOUSING CRISIS: Penticton man stuck between homelessness and housed
There’s a level of poverty between homeless and housed, and Mike Schreiber from Penticton can't…
This is where most new housing is being built in Thompson-Okanagan
More than half of the new housing built in the Thompson-Okanagan’s five largest cities in…