The city froze all funding to Atira in May, in the wake of a damning audit that found a conflict of interest between its former CEO and her husband who headed BC Housing.
Tensions between the City of Vancouver and housing provider Atira seem to be easing with the city approving nearly $800,000 in grants after freezing funding to Atira back in May. As Cassidy Mosconi reports, it comes as Atira's interim CEO provides an update on the last 100 days.
Atira’s former management had faced employee allegations of harassment and unsafe working conditions. “We know in the Downtown Eastside with the poisoned drug supply and the amount of housing issues, but also with the gang violence, the level of security has deteriorated significantly, and our employees are working in buildings that have been continuously lived in for 100 to 110 years.”“We haven’t seen the tangible change we need to see, and the reason for that is because we don’t have a collective agreement in place,” BCGEU treasurer Paul Finch told Global News.
The Ernst and Young report found that while no individual benefitted materially from the relationships during their overlapping time leading the organizations, Atira was awarded contracts without a competitive process, received a substantial increase in funding, and got at least $3 million in COVID-19 funds without appropriate internal BC Housing approval.
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