CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The province of British Columbia currently provides two types of rental subsidies for eligible lower-income families and seniors through BC Housing, paid in monthly instalments toward home rent in the private market. On Cortes and Quadra Islands, seniors make up nearly a third of the population.
Continue reading BC offers rental subsidies for lower-income households and seniorsCKTZ 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 RiverCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The newest affordable housing project by Quadra Island Seniors Housing Society (QISHS) is welcoming tenants into its recently completed 16 units in Quathiaski Cove.
Continue reading Quadra Island seniors moving into freshly completed homesRainbow 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).
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