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2 March 2023
BC Budget is a Step Forward on Reconciliation
Our Housing Central partners at the Aboriginal Housing Management Association (AHMA) are pleased to see significant investment in Affordable Housing and Homelessness across BC in the 2023 BC Budget. This investment is long overdue and needed as BC deals with a housing and homelessness crisis that disproportionately impacts Indigenous people and communities.
28 February 2023
B.C. Budget 2023 Builds on Historic Investments in Affordable Housing
Investments will protect existing homes, accelerate funding for new affordable homes, and reduce the growing affordability gap for renters.
27 February 2023
Canada’s Resilient Housing Solution
Our partners at CHF Canada have been hard at work advocating for investments to grow and support housing co-ops. Last week, they released recommendations for the upcoming 2023 Federal Budget.
22 April 2022
Co-op Housing in the News
Following the release of the federal budget there has been a flurry news coverage. Here is a selection of some of these articles… and more.
12 April 2022
2022 Federal Budget Response
Housing affordability was at the forefront of big-ticket federal budget announcements last week, and CHF BC is pleased to see Ottawa’s focus on an issue affecting the lives of millions of Canadians so directly.
23 February 2022
BC Budget 2022 falls short on urgent need for more funding for affordable housing
The biggest omission in the budget is the lack of any attention to the loss of affordable homes from the existing rental market.