B.C. housing minister in the Okanagan ‘listening and learning’ as he takes aim at the housing crisis
“That may mean supportive housing … but it also may mean affordable rental units or smaller units people can actually afford to buy.”Asked about the province’s plan to create housing targets for some municipalities, Kahlon said it was too soon to say if any Okanagan communities will be included.
“We are right now in the process of picking eight to 10 communities that will have targets put on them. It gives us the tools to be able to step in if we don’t see action at the level that we want to see it, but so far every mayor I have talked to is ready to go,” Kahlon said.“There will be certainly a community in the Interior that will be on that list I just don’t know [which] at this point because the analysis is still happening.
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