CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Construction has begun on a new housing complex in Powell River to provide affordable homes for families and seniors with low to moderate incomes.
Continue reading Another affordable housing project is underway in Powell RiverRainbow Ridge is not one of the six Vancouver Island projects that BC Housing is funding this season.
“We suspected that was a possibility because there were so many applications and so much need across the province. We definitely had our fingers crossed and hoped we would be accepted but, unfortunately, we were not,” said Elizabeth Anderson, President of the Cortes Community Housing Society (CHS).
Continue reading Rainbow Ridge: Preparing for the next round of fundingOn January 26th 2021, Currents reported on continuing friction between the SRD Board and our elected representative Noba Anderson. Readers may recall that SRD had filed a petition against Anderson and her land partners after a bylaw compliance complaint against their Cortes Island property. Legal documents pertaining to this case are now publicly available, and Currents is able to report in further detail.
Why should Cortes Islanders care about a private legal dispute? Because this litigation has implications and consequences for all Area B residents. If SRD succeeds in court, it could set a precedent instantly rendering many Cortes properties non-compliant which have previously been legal. SRD has re-interpreted the language of the zoning bylaw in a new way, outside the traditional understanding of the community and of SRD’s own planners.
Continue reading SRD vs Anderson: Zoning Compliance IssueMidway through Cortes Island’s second Spring of the pandemic, more people are buying locally, but government restrictions and Quadra Island’s negative messaging have an impact.
Continue reading More people buying locally: restrictions and negative messaging have an impactWhat solutions does the 2021 Federal budget have for Canada’s housing crisis?
Continue reading Is the Federal Budget addressing the housing crisis?
