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Photo gallery
Photos from events are sorted by date and are in
reverse chronological order.
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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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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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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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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23-APR-2010
 | Official opening of the first phase at the Maxxine
Wright Centre, providing 12 short-term stay beds for pregnant women
and their children and a pre and post-natal care clinic. From Left
to right: Deb Jack, Board Director, Atira Women's Resource Society;
Linda Bachmann, Fraser Health; Marilyn Pearson, Surrey Homelessness
& Housing Society; Janice Abbott, Executive Director, Atira
Women's Resource Society; The Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of
Housing and Social Development, and Surrey City Councillor Mary
Martin.
News release.
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08-APR-2010
 | Official groundbreaking of Dolphin Street Housing, the
Province’s contribution of $2.73 million will be used
to reconfigure the modular homes into a two-storey building with
eight apartments at 5661 Dolphin St. As well, a $100,000 community
gaming grant will help renovate the adjacent former RCMP building
into a clubhouse. From Left to right: Dr. Faith Auton-Cuff,
Vancouver Coastal Health; Dr. Robert Smith, Arrowhead Centre
Society; Gloria Lifton, President of the board for Sunshine Coast
Community Services Society; Vicki Dobbyn, CEO of Sunshine Coast
Community Services Society; Sechelt Mayor Darren Inkster and The
Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social
Development.
News
release.
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01-FEB-2010
 | Official opening of Downtown Eastside Connect at
Woodward’s, a resource centre for media and the public
open until February 28 for the 2010 Olympic Games. The centre
provides a range of information on housing, support and community
services involving non-profit and community groups in the Downtown
Eastside. From Left to right: Liz Evans, PHS Community Services
Society; Ian Gillespie, Westbank Projects and The Honourable Rich
Coleman, Minister of Minister of Housing and Social
Development.
News release.
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22-JAN-2010
 | Official opening of Lookout Emergency Aid Society’s
Russell Housing Centre (formerly College Place Hotel), a 40-unit,
15-shelter-bed development for people who are homeless or at risk
of homelessness, funded under the Provincial Homelessness
Initiative (PHI). In photo: Harry Bloy, MLA for Burnaby-Lougheed.
News
release.
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21-JAN-2010
 | Official groundbreaking of Dunbar Apartments, $18.5-million
supportive housing development on West 17th Ave to
provide 51 apartments for people who are homeless, funded under the
Provincial Homelessness Initiative (PHI), with Coast
Foundation Society. From Left to right: Aaron Estrin, Founder and
Past President of Yaffa Housing Society; Councillor Suzanne Anton,
City of Vancouver; Dr.Peter Gibson, Board Chair, Coast Mental
Health; Deputy Mayor Kerry Jang, City of Vancouver; Allyson Muir,
Vancouver Coastal Health; The Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of
Housing and Social Development; Colin Hansen, Minister of Finance
and Deputy Premier and Darrell Burnham, Executive Director, Coast
Mental Health.
News release.
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15-DEC-2009
 | Official opening of Warmland House, an $8.47-million development
providing 15 emergency shelter beds and 24 transitional housing
units. From Left to right: Chuck McCanalist; Jean Carner; Mayor
Phil Kent, City of Duncan; Christina Martens, CMHA - Cowichan
Valley Branch; Ron Cantelon, MLA for Parksville-Qualicum; Mayor Tom
Walker, District of North Cowichan; Dr. Bob Burns, VIHA; Chief
Lydia Hwitsum, Cowichan Tribes and Doug Routley, MLA Nanaimo- North
Cowichan.
News release.
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15-DEC-2009
 | Official Groundbreaking of 188 East 1st Avenue, a $28.8-million
supportive housing development on East 1st Ave. will provide 129
new apartments for people who are homeless. From Left to right: The
Honourable Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social
Development; George Chow, Deputy Mayor, City of Vancouver; Mary
McNeil, Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow BC; Allyson
Muir, Vancouver Coastal Health; Georges Maltais, Lookout Emergency
Aid Society; Resident, Lookout Emergency Aide Society; Karen
O’Shannacery, Lookout Emergency Aid
Society and Resident, Lookout Emergency Aid Society.
News release.
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10-NOV-2009
 | Official opening of Ksan Residence and Shelter, a new housing
development providing 16 emergency shelter beds and 12 transitional
units for individuals at risk of homelessness in Terrace. From Left
to right: Jan LeFrancois, Ksan House Society; Mayor Dave
Pernarowski, City of Terrace; Don Roberts, Chief of KitsumKalum;
Mildred Roberts, Nnadap drug and alcohol worker; Maureen Atkinson,
Ksan House Society; John Rustad, MLA for Nechako Lakes and Carol
Sabo, Executive Director of Ksan House Society.
News release.
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10-NOV-2009
 | Official Groundbreaking of Tutt Street Place, a new 39-unit
supportive housing development for women in financial need. From
Left to right: Norm Letnick, MLA Kelowna-Lake Country; Liz Talbott,
Executive Director for NOW Canada Society; Theresa Eichler, Real
Estate Foundation of B.C.; Kelowna Mayor Sharon Shepherd; Steve
Thomson, MLA Kelowna-Mission; Ben Stewart, MLA Westside-Kelowna
andTeresa Heath, NOW Canada, tenant.
News
release.
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16-OCT-2009
 | A unique photo storytelling exhibition
Real People, Real Lives…Courage and Hope in the
Downtown Eastside runs October 16-25 in the rotunda at Pacific
Centre, and October 30-November 14 at the Interurban Gallery, in
Vancouver. The project is a candid portrait of 12 people who live
in one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods
– is a collaboration between Atira Women’s
Resource Society and its property management company, award-winning
photographer Michael Bednar, and BC Housing.
News release.
More information.
Caption: From left: Vancouver Mayor, Gregor Robertson and Mike,
Real People, Real Lives participant.
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