Affordable Housing
Tackling B.C.'s affordable housing crisis - particularly in the Lower Mainland - is critical to the attraction and retention of businesses and talent in the region.
In 2016, the BC Chamber’s province-wide membership recently passed three policies targeted at affordable housing:
- a policy calling for a study of citizenship and residency data on all real estate in B.C.;
- a policy calling for various approaches to increase housing supply; and
- a policy calling for government to incentivize the creation of affordable rental housing.
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October 15, 2016
“From the B.C. Chamber of Commerce’s point of view, housing affordability is very much an issue. Our members are saying that to us … and asking us to talk to government on this issue.”
Dan Baxter, B.C. Chamber of Commerce
June 03, 2016
B.C.’s Chambers of Commerce this week passed a series of new policies to tackle B.C.’s housing affordability challenges.