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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.
19-AUG-2010
 | Vancouver Native Housing Society celebrated the completion of the
Orwell Hotel Mural Project, a 7,600 sq ft mural, which is the
largest in Western Canada.
News
release.
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29-JUL-2010
 | Official opening of Jubilee Place, which provides 33 suites with
integrated support services for individuals at risk of homelessness
in Williams Lake. From Left to right: Trevor Barnes, Executive
Director of CMHA-Cariboo Chilcotin branch; Gay Sanders,
Board Chair, CMHA- Cariboo Chilcotin Branch; Raymond Lulua, tenant
of Jubilee Place; Donna Barnett, MLA for Cariboo-Chilcotin; Mayor
Kerry Cook, Municipaility of Williams Lake; Geoff
Stedman, BC Housing; Chief Anne Louie, Williams Lake Indian Band;
Elder, Williams Lake Indian Band and Darlene Doskoch, CMHA-Cariboo
Chilcotin branch.
News release.
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23-JUL-2010
 | Official opening of Eagle's Nest, a new $7.9-million building
providing 33 suites in Williams Lake. From Left to
right: Rosanne McGregor, Cariboo Friendship Society; Mayor Kerry
Cook, Municipiality of Williams Lake; Donna Barnett, MLA of
Cariboo-Chilcotin; Surinderpal Rathor, Councillor,
Municipality of Williams Lake; Andrew Leach, CEO of
AHMA; Steven Narcisse, Board Member, Cariboo Friendship Society and
Geoff Stedman, BC Housing.
News release.
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30-JUN-2010
 | Official funding announcement for Swift House, the Province is
investing $4 million to expand Swift House and $257,600 to provide
additional emergency shelter spaces for the City of Victoria. From
Left to right: The Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and
Social Development; The Honourable Ida Chong, Minister
of Minister of Healthy Living and Sport; Kathy Stinson, Executive
Director, Victoria Cool Aid Society; Mayor Mayor Dean Fortin,
Municipality of Victoria and The Honourable Murray
Coell, Minister of Labour.
News release.
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24-JUN-2010
 | Official completion of Bethune Flex Plex in Saanich, an affordable
homeownership project funded in part by the Governments of Canada
and British Columbia, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity
Victoria and the Canadian Home Builders’ Association
(CHBA)-Victoria. From Left to right: Mariah and her father, Brian,
one of the families who are now first-time homeowners; Dorina and
her daughters Ester and Angela, another one of the families who
purchased in the Bethune complex and The Honourable Ida Chong,
Minister of Healthy Living and Sport and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon
Head.
News release.
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23-JUN-2010
 | Official groundbreaking of 8937 School Street, a $10-million
Olympic legacy housing project in Chilliwack. From Left to right:
Anita Rogers, Board Chair, Chilliwack Community Services Society;
Eric Hunkin, Client, Creative Centre Society; John Les, MLA for
Chilliwack; Kate Lister, Creative Centre Society; Dale Cuthbertson,
Chilliwack Community Services Society and Sharron Gaetz, City of
Chilliwack.
News
release.
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18-JUN-2010
 | Official groundbreaking of The Remy, a 188-unit housing
development for low-income seniors, singles and families, including
market apartments and a daycare. From Left to right: Premier Gordon
Campbell; Alice Wong, MP for Richmond; Mayor Malcolm Brodie,
Municipaility of Richmond, Peter Kwok, Board Chair, S.U.C.C.E.S.S;
Dana Westermark, President, Oris Development; Linda Reid, MLA for
Richmond East and Rob Howard, MLA for Richmond Centre.
News release.
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17-JUN-2010
 | Official opening of Skaha Sunrise Apartments (former Hansel
& Gretel Hotel, Penticton), providing 45 suites with integrated
support services for individuals at risk of
homelessness. From Left to right: Tony Laing, Executive
Director, Penticton and District Society for Community Living;
Patrick Pelletier, Resident, Skaha Sunrise Apartments; Terrie
Crawford, Executive Director, CMHA – South Okanagan
Similkameen Branch; Bill Barisoff, MLA for Penticton; Rob Kushner,
Interior Health and David Pfiger, Housing Coordinator, Skaha
Sunrise Apartments.
News release.
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16-JUN-2010
 | Official opening of Haven Gardens, a $6.3-million
development in Cranbrook. From Left to right: Mayor Scott Manjak,
Municipality of Cranbrook ; Bill Bennett, Minister of Energy, Mines
and Petroleum Resources and MLA for Kootenay East; Janice Ivan,
Executive Director of the CMHA-K; Gerry Merkel, Board Chair of the
Columbia Basin Trust; Manfred Gershak, BC Housing;
Joffre Pomerleau of Innovative Housing Consultants, who consulted
on the project; Wally Eddy, President of the CMHA-K.
News release.
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16-JUN-2010
 | Official announcement for Campbell River MOU
sites, the Province is providing $6 million to construct
a new supportive housing building with 30 apartments for women and
children, which – in addition to last
year’s $7.3 million investment in a new group home.
From Left to right: Valery Puetz, Executive Director of Campbell
River and North Island Transition Society; Andrew Adams, councillor
for the City of Campbell River; Darlene Hawes, Board
Chair of Campbell River and North Island Transition
Society; The Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of
Housing and Social Development and Marry Story, councillor for the
City of Campbell River.
News release.
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15-JUN-2010
 | Official provincial funding announcement for the three remaining
Nanaimo Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) sites and Salish Lelum
groundbreaking. Salish Lelum is one of five sites under the
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). From Left to right: Geraldine
Manson of the Snunyeuxm First Nation; Grace Elliott Nielsen,
Executive Director of Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre;
MLA Ron Cantelon; Bill Seward, Snunyeuxm First Nation Elder; Mayor
John Ruttan, Municipality of Nanaimo; and The
Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social
Development.
News release.
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12-JUN-2010
 | Official groundbreaking of Monashee Place, a Seniors' Rental
Housing project that will provide 16 affordable modular apartments
for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. From Left to
right: Mayor Kevin Acton, Municipaility
of Lumby; Colin Mayes, Member of Parliament
for Okanagan-Shuswap; Eric Foster, MLA for
Vernon-Monashee; and Judy Gibbs, chairperson of Lumby &
District Senior Citizens Society.
News release.
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28-MAY-2010
 | Official opening of Woodward’s, providing 200
affordable rental apartments for singles, families and people with
disabilities. From Left to right: The Honourable Rich Coleman,
Minister of Housing and Social Development; Premier Gordon
Campbell; Stockwell Day, The Honourable Stockwell Day, President of
the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway; Liz
Evans, PHS Community Services Society; Councillor Suzanne Anton,
Deputy Mayor, City of Vancouver; Bob Nicklin, Executive Director,
Affordable Housing Societies.
News release.
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25-MAY-2010
 | John McLernon, chair of the Streetohome Foundation; Minister
Coleman; Premier Campbell; Bonnie Rice, executive director of the
Katherine Sanford Housing Society (the society will assist with the
operation of two of today's announced projects); and, Vancouver
Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Read
the news release.
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21-MAY-2010
 | Official announcement of the successful proponent of an EOI call.
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Kamloops Branch, in
partnership with the ASK Wellness Centre, has been selected as the
non-profit operator for a new centralized co-ed emergency shelter
with transition housing located at 259 W Victoria St. in Kamloops.
News
release.
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14-MAY-2010
 | Official announcement of provincial funding for the Rutland Road
site, providing $7.3 million to construct a supportive housing
building with 49 apartments at 195 Rutland Rd. N.. From Left to
right: Norm Letnick, MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country; Shelley Cook,
Executive Director, John Howard Society of the Central
and South Okanagan; Kevin Craig, Kelowna Deputy Mayor; The
Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social
Development; The Honourable Ben Stewart, Minister of
Citizens' Services and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism
and the Public Affairs Bureau and The Honourable Steve
Thomson, Minister of Agriculture and Lands.
News release.
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10-MAY-2010
 | Official opening of Lake View Village, a $13.7-million
development to provide 90 supportive-housing suites for
seniors, including 13 studio suites for low-income seniors. From
Left to right: Mike Berg, Director of Columbia Basin Trust; Mayor
John Dooley, Municipality of Nelson; Audrey Phillips, Lake View
Village resident; Bill Bennett, Minister of Community and Rural
Development and MLA for Kootenay East, and Endre Lillejord, CEO for
Golden Life Management.
News release.
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07-MAY-2010
 | Official Celebration of Construction – Enderby Memorial
Terrace, an Olympic legacy housing project that will provide 15
affordable rental apartments for low-income seniors in Enderby.
From Left to right: Barry Fawcett, Enderby Seniors
Housing Society; Ted Morrison, Chamber of Commerce
President; Howie Cyr, City of Enderby; The
Honourable George Abbott, MLA for Shuswap and Minister
of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation; Pat
Stroulger, Enderby Seniors Housing; Vic Aube, Enderby
Seniors Housing Society and Bob Cowan, North Okanagan Regional
District.
News release.
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07-MAY-2010
 | Official celebration of construction - Olympic Vista Apartments, an
Olympic legacy housing project that will provide 36 affordable
rental apartments with support services for individuals who are
homeless or at risk of homelessness in Saanich. From Left to right:
Graham Hill Chair of the Capital Regional Hospital District; Susan
Belford co-president of Mount Colquitz Community Association;
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard; Kathy Stinson, Executive Director of
Victoria Cool Aid Society; Murray Coell, Minister of
Labour and MLA for Saanich North and the Islands and Cathy Stigant,
Board Chair of Victoria Cool Aid Society.
News release.
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30-APR-2010
 | Official groundbreaking of Kinsmen Place Lodge, a
$33.7-million building to provide residential care beds for Surrey
seniors. From Left to right: Keith McBain, Fraser Health;
Councillor Barbara Steele, City of Surrey; Stephanie Cadieux, MLA
for Surrey-Panorama; Gerry Della Mattie, Board Chair, Whalley &
District Senior Citizens Housing Society; Patrick Muir, Resident;
Vlado Picek, Resident and Kathleen Strath, CEO, Kinsmen Place
Lodge.
News
release.
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