Legislation introduced creates new measures to help make home ownership more affordable, establishes a fund for market housing and rental initiatives, strengthens consumer protection, and gives the City of Vancouver the tools it requested to increase rental property supply.

Families and seniors in Kelowna have a new, safe place to call home at the newly redeveloped Pleasantvale, which celebrated its official opening today.

The Province released the first set of data resulting from new measures to track the extent of foreign real estate transactions. 

A new affordable housing development under construction in East Vancouver will increase options for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, while providing a unique approach to supportive housing.

Premier Christy Clark announced that government will end the industry self-regulation in the real estate industry and overhaul governance, oversight, transparency and accountability of the sector.

Finance Minister Michael de Jong made the following statement in response to the Real Estate Council of B.C. releasing the Independent Advisory Group’s final report on B.C.’s real estate sector.

Darrick Louie, originally from Cortes Island, was working as a construction labourer at jobsites throughout British Columbia when he made the decision to return to school, “Employers kept asking me if I had my ticket. I made the decision to go and get it.”

Along with the United Nations, the UNHCR, the Government of Canada and civic groups in more than 100 countries, the Province has proclaimed June 20, 2016, as World Refugee Day in British Columbia.