{"id":30284,"date":"2021-01-01T23:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=30284"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:07:33","slug":"affordable-housing-can-be-solved-with-significant-but-realistic-amount-of-government-investment-housing-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/affordable-housing-can-be-solved-with-significant-but-realistic-amount-of-government-investment-housing-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable housing can be solved with significant\u2014but realistic\u2014amount of government investment: housing expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tan Mei Xi<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nThe affordable housing crisis can be solved with a realistic amount of government investment, says one of the leading BC voices in affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Atkey, CEO of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, pointed out that $1.8 billion annual investment in affordable housing her organisation calls for is similar to the amount of provincial and federal investment made in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, Vancouver East MP Jenny Kwan found that BC was only allotted 0.5% of the total amount of funding from the federal National Housing Strategy program.<\/p>\n<p><em>This episode originally aired in November 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tan Mei Xi &#8212; The affordable housing crisis can be solved with a realistic amount of government investment, says one of the leading BC voices in affordable housing. Jill Atkey, CEO of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, pointed out that $1.8 billion annual investment in affordable housing her organisation calls for is similar to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":30286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[4634,678,571,984],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30284"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=30284"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=30284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}