{"id":74573,"date":"2021-11-25T22:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=74573"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:08:01","slug":"there-is-an-urgent-need-to-address-the-lack-of-affordable-housing-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/there-is-an-urgent-need-to-address-the-lack-of-affordable-housing-in-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"There is an urgent need to address the lack of affordable housing in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">September\u2019s federal election resulted in almost no change to the House, leaving Justin Trudeau leading a minority government as Prime Minister. But the election campaign did see for the first time, all the major parties promising to help with the housing crisis gripping every major city in the country. And October saw Trudeau appoint a new minister for housing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marika Albert, Policy Director for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bcnpha.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">B.C. Non-profit Housing Association<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (BCNPHA),\u00a0 gives us her thoughts on the recent election, in particular, how \u201cthe media also really focused on the different parties' positions on housing and how to address housing affordability in the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe were quite happy to see that, and we\u2019re hoping to build on that momentum, for our upcoming municipal elections in the province,\u201d she adds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BCNPHA is working on its next affordable housing plan for BC as, \u201cWe are not seeing the development of non-profit housing happening at the pace that we need it to be, to address the lack of\u2026affordable housing in our communities,\u201d continues Albert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to Marika Albert\u2019s interview below.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September\u2019s federal election resulted in almost no change to the House, leaving Justin Trudeau leading a minority government as Prime Minister. But the election campaign did see for the first time, all the major parties promising to help with the housing crisis gripping every major city in the country. And October saw Trudeau appoint a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":74575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,3265,225],"tags":[579,979,678,370,571],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74573"}],"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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74573"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=74573"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=74573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}