CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Some businesses on Cortes Island have been hard hit by a staffing shortage this year, most citing lack of affordable housing for potential employees as the most common hurdle.
Continue reading A pandemic of staff shortage of Cortes IslandRainbow 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 fundingMidway 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?Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable on CKTZ: where we go in-depth on today’s big issues from a small community perspective with the journalists that are researching and writing about them from within these communities. Today’s topic is the unique nature of the the Housing Crisis in rural/isolated and small communities.
Continue reading Folk U Reporter’s Roundtable: the Housing Crisis in rural/isolated and small communities
