Spot the Problem?

What's missing from the housing budget? The housing.

By Marc Lee
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
February 21, 2007

BC Budget 2007 is a "housing budget" that does not build much housing.

The budget commits to a mere 250 new social housing units over two years - a far cry from the 2,000 per year that was built back when the federal and provincial governments were in the game (before 1993). At this pace, it will take 17 years to house the homeless of Greater Vancouver, and that is not taking into account estimates from the Pivot Legal Society that homelessness could triple by the time of the 2010 Olympics.

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