Radical housing announcement expected today

Francis Bula, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, October 29, 2007

Vancouver is about to see a radical new experiment in low-cost housing -- the 21st-century version of residential hotels and rooming houses.

Housing Minister Rich Coleman is announcing today -- along with who will run the older hotels the province bought in March -- a new project for the Downtown Eastside that will consist of 120 rooms each between 200 and 250 square feet.

That's far smaller than the 350 square feet now allowed by city bylaws, but it's bigger than the 100 square feet of many of the older hotel rooms called SROs (single-room occupancy) in Vancouver.

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