People experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Chilliwack will soon have access to 73 temporary housing units through the Province’s Homeless Encampment Action Response Temporary Housing (HEARTH) program.

People with low to moderate incomes will soon have access to 66 new affordable homes in New Westminster.

Updates to the BC Building Code will benefit people in the building and housing sectors with the expanded use of mass timber in taller buildings, as well as schools, libraries and retail.

Indigenous Peoples in the Alberni Valley will soon have access to 35 new homes as construction gets underway on a rental housing development in Port Alberni.

The Province is taking action to support renters and landlords who play by the rules by amending legislation to better protect people from bad-faith evictions, eliminate rent increases when a child is added to a household and resolve rental disputes faster.

People living in Langley will continue to have affordable rents and housing certainty with the purchase of 108 homes, made possible through the Rental Protection Fund.