Home Insecurity The State Of Social Housing Funding In Bc

HOME INSECURITY The State of Social Housing Funding in BC by John Irwin AUGUST 2004 Home Insecurity: The State of Social Housing Funding in BC By John Irwin August 2004 ISBN 0-88627-375-7 $10 ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Irwin is a researcher with the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. [...] Key findings: Social housing in BC is being transformed by a The BC government has abandoned the provision shift away from affordable housing for those on a of new social housing at a time with the demand low income to assisted living for those with health for affordable housing is rising. [...] BC Housing is the provincial agency that manages these funds for social housing, and rent supplement programs (see the box "What is social housing?" in the summary for a discussion of the differences between rent supplements and social housing). [...] Home Insecurity: The State of Social Housing Funding in BC 7 The State of Social Housing Funding in BC Affordable housing as a shell game The new BC government, in 2001, remained committed to some of the social housing projects announced by its predecessor, but put an end to funding new social housing for those in economic need. [...] The only other new social housing to be built in BC is largely municipally-driven-100 units in the Woodward's re-development in 2006/07,8 250 units that may be built in the 2010 Olympics athletes' village in Southeast False Creek,9 and a number of homeless-at-risk units.10 In stark contrast to the winding down of the Provincial Housing Program, the government will provide 3,500 assisted living uni.