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Photo gallery
BC Housing works across the province in partnership with
non-profit housing providers, housing co-ops, the private sector
and other levels of government to create affordable housing for
those in greatest need.
12-MAY-2008
 | Randy Forrester, future Habitat family homeowner; Hon. Rich
Coleman, Minister responsible for Housing; Burquitlam MLA Harry
Bloy; and Jim Lippert, Director, Habitat for Humanity Canada stand
in front of Phase four of the Habitat for Humanity Burnaby site at
8745 Government Street to comemorate the partnership agreement
between the Province and Habitat for Humanity signed today.
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01-MAY-2008
 | Cutline: Long-time project supporter and city councillor Helen
Hughes leads a toast to the new Youth Hospitality Training Centre.
From left to right standing: Helen Hughes, city councillor; Mohan
Jawl, Jawl Properties; Rhonda Beveridge, Director, Victoria Youth
Empowerment Society; Shannon Baggot, Service Canada; Don Monsour,
Restaurant Association; David Hoff, Director, Bell Canada; Mayor
Alan Lowe; Minister responsible for Housing, Rich Coleman; Minister
of Children and Family Development, Tom Christensen. From left to
right sitting; Scott Hoadley, Hotel Association; Bobbie Moretti,
Coast Capital Savings; Maureen Duncan, United Way; Steve Gorman,
Oak Bay Kiwanis; John Kirby, Maximus; Joanna Bateman, Three Point
Properties.
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18-APR-2008
 | Official Groundbreaking of The Salvation Army's Gateway of Hope
in Langley - From Left: MP for Langley Mark Warawa; Stan Mingo,
testimonial; Zachary, honourary mayor of the City
of Langley for the day; City of Langley Mayor Peter
Fassbender; Envoy Gary Johnson, Executive Director and Pastor of
The Salvation Army Langley South Corps; MLA for Langley Mary Polak;
Township of Langley Mayor Kurt Alberts; Thomas Skidmore , Chair,
The Salvation Army Greater Vancouver Advisory Board; Major Neil
Watt, Territorial Secretary for Business Administration, Canadian
Territory, The Salvation Army; and Major Bill Blackman, Divisional
Commander, British Columbia, The Salvation Army.
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14-APR-2008
 | Premier Gordon Campbell spoke at the announcement of the expansion
of Covenant House, a shelter and resource centre for homeless
youth. The expansion will receive funding from the Housing
Endowment Fund as well as from VANOC. Minister Tom Christensen
officiated; Minister Rich Coleman and Attorney General Wally Oppal
were also on hand to represent the Province.
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news release. From left: Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing;
Krista Thompson, Executive Director-Covenant House; Premier Gordon
Campbell; Mark Betteridge, Board Chair-Covenant House; Tom
Christensen, Minister of Children and Family Development
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14-APR-2008
 | Surrey is the latest municipality to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with the Province to expedite city-owned sites
for supportive housing. Premier Gordon Campbell and Mayor Dianne
Watts made the announcement April 14. Premier Campbell at the
podium.
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28-MAR-2008
 | Official opening of 89 units of assisted living under ILBC with the
Beulah Garden Homes Society.
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news release From left: Dr. Paul Pearce, Beulah
Gardens Homes Society; Linda Thomas, Vancouver Coastal Health;
Mayor Sam Sullivan, City of Vancouver; Wilma Martin, Cedars tenant;
Minister of Health George Abbott; and Dr. Nis Schmidt, Beulah
Gardens Homes Society
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17-MAR-2008
 | Official opening of this renovated house with 10 beds of
transitional housing with support services for young Aboriginal
women funded under the new Aboriginal Housing Initiative. Ministers
in attendance included Rich Coleman, Tom Christensen, Michael de
Jong, and John van Dongen.
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news release.
From left: Jeannie, Peardonville House client; Angela Marshall,
Spirit Bear Center; Councillor John Smith, City of Abbotsford;
Lester Ned, Grand Chief, Sto:lo Tribal Council; MP Ed Fast; Mnister
Tom Christensen; Lynn Ned, Spirit Bear Center Society; Minister
Rich Coleman; Minister Mike de Jong; MLA John van Dongen, Mayor of
Abbotsford George Ferguson; and Gordon Gong, Aboriginal Housing
Management Association
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17-MAR-2008
 | Official opening of four units of assisted living, the first for
Haida Gwaii, funded under ILBC CAN-BC with
the Queen Charlottes Heritage Housing Society.
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news release.
From left: Jolene Martin, Queen Charlotte Heritage Housing Society;
Village of Queen Charlotte Mayor Carol Kulesha; Shayne Ramsay, CEO,
BC Housing; residents Marj-Anne Cline and Jeanne Crist; Tom Siems,
CMHC; Debbie McMillan, Queen Charlottes Housing Development
Society; Andrew McLetchie, Northern Health.
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14-MAR-2008
 | Official opening of 10 units of transitional housing with support
services for homeless people in recovery funded under PHI.
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the news release.
From left to right: Marsha Greig, John Howard Society of the South
and Central Okanagan; Joan Campbell, IHA; MLA Al Horning; Barry
Brown-John, Chair of The Real Estate Foundation Board of Governors;
and Ann Petrone, Board Member of the John Howard Society.
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07-MAR-2008
 | Completion of 26 units of Seniors’ Supportive Housing
at Mountain View Manor – the first development to open
under SSH.
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news release.
From left: Margaret McNeil, BC Housing; Pat Mitchell, Mountain View
Manor tenant; MLA Rick Thorpe; and Mayor of Keremeos/Chair of Lower
Similkameen Community Services Society Walter Despot.
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22-FEB-2008
 | Official opening of Icelandic Care Home’s Hofn
Society’s Icelandic Assisted Living Residence, 77
assisted living units funded under ILBC.
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news release.
From left: Norman Eyford, Vice President, Icelandic Assisted Living
Residence; Linda Thomas, Vancouver Coastal Health; Minister Wally
Oppal; resident Gary Thorsteinson; MP Ed Fast; Brian Bjarnason,
President, Icelandic Care Home Hofn Society; Mayor Sam Sullivan and
Heather Alda Ireland, Honorary Consul General for Iceland in B.C.
and Yukon.
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22-FEB-2008
 | Official opening of Retirement Concepts’ Langley
Seniors Village, 64 units of assisted living funded under ILBC.
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news release.
From left to right: Kathleen Nicholles, GM of Langley Seniors
Village; Minister Coleman; Joan Teekman, Langley Seniors Village
resident; Palbinder Shergill, Fraser Health Board Member; Mel
Kositsky, Deputy Mayor of Township of Langley; Azim Jamal,
President & CEO of Retirement Concepts.
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14-FEB-2008
 | Premier Gordon Campbell announcing the purchasing of another six
Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels in Vancouver to
reduce homelessness and help protect affordable housing stock for
those most in need.
Read the news release
. From left to right: Premier Gordon Campbell; Minister Rich
Coleman; and City of Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan.
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29-NOV-2007
 | A $2-million grant from the Province’s Housing
Endowment Fund is awarded to the BC Professional Fire
Fighters’ Burn Fund Building, a development that will
provide eight units to accommodate burn survivors and their
families during treatment periods.
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the news release. From left to right: Al Leier, President of
the BC Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund; Minister Rich
Coleman; and Tony Burke, executive director of the BC Professional
Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund.
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23-NOV-2007
 | Official opening of the Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens’
Housing Society’s Hawthorne Assisted Living, 70 units
of assisted living funded under ILBC. MLA John Nuraney officiated.
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the news release. From left to right: Jackie Angel, Director of
Hawthorne Assisted Living; Lenore Pickering, Executive Director,
Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens' Housing Society; Colleen Hart,
Geriatric and Residential/Supportive Living Services, Fraser
Health; MP James Moore; Resident Ruth Haluska; MLA John Nuraney;
City of Port Coquitlam Councillor Darrell Penner; and
Walter Van Drimmelen, Board Chair, Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens'
Housing Society.
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17-NOV-2007
 | The official ribbon cutting for the purchase of Launching
Pad Recovery House.
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the news release. From left to right: Recovery House resident
Jason with Minister Gordon Hogg.
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16-NOV-2007
 | Plaque presentation at the official opening of Good Samaritan Heron
Grove.
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the news release.
From left to right: Alan Dolman,
Board Chair, Interior Health; Minister Tom Christensen, MLA
Okanagan - Vernon; Mayor Wayne Lippert, City of Vernon; Colin
Mayes, MP Okanagan - Shuswap; with resident Marvin Briekreitz in
front.
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26-OCT-2007
 | Official opening of Triage Emergency Services & Care Society's
5616 Fraser Street development, 30 units of supportive housing for
adult mental health consumers who require support services and are
engaged in active recovery from addictions.
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the news release. From left: Ida Goodreau, Vancouver Coastal
Health; Kim Capri, Councillor, City of Vancouver; MP Mark Warawa;
Minister Rich Coleman; David, Resident; Mark Smith and Jaime Hall,
Triage Emergency Services & Care Society.
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20-OCT-2007
 | Minister Ida Chong helps plant a pear tree in the garden of the
Roofs and Roots Housing Co-op to symbolize the beginning of
co-operative status for the building at 1511 Bank Street.
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the news release.
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12-OCT-2007
 | Premier Campbell making the funding announcements October 12 at
Lookout Emergency Aid Society’s Yukon Shelter.
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