Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon: 'It's not only those communities that need the housing.'
A new pot of money announced Monday for affordable home construction in B.C. will not be directly funnelled to the 10 municipalities put on a “housing target” list earlier this year by Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon to build more homes.
A Hansard transcript of that exchange quotes Kahlon as saying 1,475 units were completed under the community housing fund. The minister then goes on to say more than 32,000 homes were either complete or in development under the NDP’s various housing programs. Staff at the housing ministry provided data to Glacier Media Tuesday that said 2,200 homes are open, 3,639 under construction, 1,617 in development and 1,491In May, Kahlon placed Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops and seven other cities on a list to push them to build more homes — and build them faster. The other cities are Abbotsford, Delta, Port Moody, West Vancouver, Saanich, Oak Bay and the District of North Vancouver.
Kirkpatrick, however, doesn’t think there should be a dedicated budget for the 10 cities on the list, saying it wouldn’t be fair to other municipalities that have built their fair share of housing.
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