Premier David Eby announced Tuesday (March. 19) close to 2,000 new affordable homes for renters in Metro Vancouver.
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The province will fund 17 proposed housing projects in Metro Vancouver in partnership with local non-profit housing providers, which will provide 1,954 affordable rental homes. An additional 23 housing projects throughout the rest of B.C. will also be funded.
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The announcement was made Tuesday at a press conference in Surrey at the Sohkeyah development (7567 140 St), the site of a new housing project that is expected to open in late spring 2024. This project previously received community housing funding for the second phase.
Kekinow Native Housing Society will operate the site that will be home to more than 100 Indigenous people.
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Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon said these homes are a part of the provincesa国际传媒檚 plan to deliver affordable housing faster.
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