Housing

CHARBONNEAU – Attitude adjustment would solve our homeless problem

August 19, 2021 // 2 Comments

OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS the homeless is a barrier to solving the problem. The old notion that the poor deserve to be so: if people would just apply themselves, they wouldn’t [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Forcing more cars onto street won’t solve housing shortage

June 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

FROM SHIPPING CONTAINERS to allowing multi-family development in commercial areas, it was an action-packed committee-of-the-whole meeting yesterday. That’s the meeting [Continue]

BEPPLE – Smaller lots, greater density should take priority over urban sprawl

May 5, 2021 // 2 Comments

STRONG SALES of housing in Kamloops continues, along with record housing prices. The latest year-to-date sales posted show year-to-date home sales in 2021 up 67.2 per cent [Continue]

BEPPLE – Housing demand – City should pay people to subdivide their lots

March 24, 2021 // 5 Comments

THE KAMLOOPS REAL ESTATE MARKET is hot. Not a day goes by that I don’t I read about another house selling for $50,000 or more over asking. Or a homeowner receiving 10 [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Penticton’s feud with Eby might not bode well for Kamloops

March 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KAMLOOPS CITY COUNCIL is, no doubt, paying close attention to Penticton City council’s fight with Housing Minister David Eby. Unlike [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City council should stick to its guns on social housing security

March 8, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HOW MUCH CONSULTATION is needed before something is done about the security issue around supportive housing in Kamloops? A week ago, Coun. [Continue]

BEPPLE – Council’s supportive housing decision will have unintended effect

March 3, 2021 // 2 Comments

YESTERDAY, KAMLOOPS CITY COUNCIL wanted more order at the city’s supportive housing sites. And they decided that to get order, restrictions and requirements would be [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Action, not just words, needed on social housing and crime

February 24, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KUDOS TO SEVERAL CITY COUNCILLORS who are determined to wrestle the issue of social housing and associated street crime to the ground. Coun. [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Trying to slow the exodus from Canada’s big cities

January 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

CANADA MORTGAGE AND HOUSING Corproation (CMHC) is attempting to curb the outflow from big cities. Toronto saw a net loss of 50,375 last year as people moved to surrounding [Continue]

LETTER – Editorial on Columbia Street West used oppressive language

October 29, 2020 // 14 Comments

Re: Mel Rothenburger: Columbia Street is no place to put social housing I had the opportunity to read the article that you wrote, Columbia Street West is no place for social [Continue]

BEPPLE – City zoning needs more flexibility for smaller households

August 26, 2020 // 3 Comments

ANYONE INTERESTED in housing in Kamloops should consider reading the City of Kamloops’ Housing Needs Assessment report adopted by Kamloops City council at this week’s [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The Kamloops rental shortage is no accident

February 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL UNITS in Kamloops is the result of deliberate government policy starting with the Mulroney Conservatives in the 1990s. Not just Kamloops but [Continue]

BEPPLE – Rejecting subdivisions means higher lot prices, more urban sprawl

February 19, 2020 // 9 Comments

LAST WEEK, Kamloops City council came out on the side of a neighbourhood. There was a public hearing on a rezoning request to subdivide a lot in Dallas to allow three houses [Continue]