Housing

IN THE LEDGE – Committee expects to discuss forensic audit of BC Housing

November 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Remarks by MLAs Todd Stone and Peter Milobar yesterday (Nov. 24, 2022) during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature. T. Stone: Well, this last week has been full of [Continue]

LETTER – There’s good reason to restrict rentals in strata complexes

November 22, 2022 // 1 Comment

Re: Eby’s plan to remove rental restrictions on B.C. strata housing I live in a strata complex that is licenced rental free and forbids sales of units with possible [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – B.C. municipalities: get out of the way of low cost housing

October 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

KAMLOOPS IS AN EXCEPTION but too many B.C. municipalities are not approving enough housing for population growth. City councils find all kinds of reasons to stall affordable [Continue]

CIVIC ELECTION – Elect candidates who will cut red tape for builders

September 13, 2022 // 3 Comments

By CHRIS GARDNER President, Independent Contractors & Business Association WITH INFLATION making life more unaffordable than ever in British Columbia as we head into a [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – BC Housing reboot: there’s a lot of catching up to do

August 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

BC HOUSING CORPORATION is suffering growing pains and no wonder. After years of neglect in building affordable housing, there ís a lot of catching up to do. The provincial [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Our cityscape makes a daring switch from beige to greige

January 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

I’VE GOT GOOD NEWS and bad news. You might have heard me rant a time or two about the beigeness of Kamloops, a condition caused by myopic planners able to see only “earth [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Punishment for street criminals is the elephant in the room

January 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LONG-STANDING CALLS for complex-care facilities are finally being acted upon by the provincial government; unfortunately, Kamloops isn’t [Continue]

BEPPLE – City’s housing strategy needs to consider shrinking families

January 19, 2022 // 2 Comments

WHEN PEOPLE SAY they want housing for families, it’s important to think of what that means. In the 2016 census by Stats Canada, there were just under 37,000 households in [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Housing affordability has improved for wealthy, worsened for low-income

January 13, 2022 // 2 Comments

WITH THE SOARING COST of housing, you wouldn’t think anyone could be further ahead. But for the wealthy, that’s the case. That’s what Prof. Yushu Zhu of Simon Fraser [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Soaring assessments pit homeowners against renters

January 8, 2022 // 3 Comments

A LOT OF NEW MILLIONAIRES are walking around Kamloops these days. They don’t look different than anyone else. Their clothes aren’t any fancier; they likely don’t wear [Continue]

BEPPLE – There’s a downside to the increase in our property assessments

January 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

I’M RICH. Or, more correctly, I’m richer. Like every property owner in Kamloops, I’ve seen a significant increase in the assessed value of my home. From last year [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Some questions for BC Housing on the Rosethorn facility

December 8, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS ROSETHORN HOUSE a success, a failure or something in between? The Victoria Street West supportive housing facility has been controversial [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Surely we can disagree on social housing without violence

December 6, 2021 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE WONDERFUL THING about the society we live in is our freedom to say what we want within certain limits. We can’t engage in hate speech [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Proper consultation could avoid objections to social housing

November 30, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NOT IN MY BACKYARD is a label often put on opponents of certain developments, especially those that involve social housing. But is NIMBYism [Continue]