B.C. local governments and modern Treaty Nations can apply for grants to support crucial local services that respond to the impacts of homelessness worsened by the pandemic.

Families and individuals are moving into 64 new rental homes recently purchased by the Province to provide more rental housing for people in Maple Ridge.

Seniors with low to moderate incomes in Kamloops started moving into 37 new affordable homes on Feb. 1, 2022, with the opening of a newly built rental housing development.

The Province, through BC Housing, is partnering with the Chalmers Foundation to finance a seniors’ rental complex in Burnaby, preserving 138 units of affordable rental housing for seniors.

N’Quatqua Nation Elders, families and members will soon have access to 10 new affordable rental homes as construction gets underway on a new housing project in N’Quatqua.

More than 250 not-for-profit organizations throughout B.C. are receiving Community Gaming Grants to support environmental conservation and public safety programs. 

Seniors and people living with disabilities will soon have access to more than 50 new affordable rental homes in Comox, with construction underway on a three-storey apartment building.

The Province and Union of BC Municipalities will work together to review the local government finance system in B.C.  to ensure that municipal governments and regional districts remain resilient in the face of economic changes.

Work is starting on a new rental housing building in north Nanaimo that will provide affordable homes for people with a range of incomes.