Non-profit found horrifying housing conditions when checking 31 applications for affordable homes in Wilson Creek this year; four applicants chosen
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Councillors have misgivings about Habitat’s plan for former RCMP site
Councillors Silas White and Stafford Lumley are reluctant to give up land for three duplexes but offer no clear alternative
Continue readingHomeless shelter in Sechelt sees more and more seniors at the doors
With at least three hundred homeless on the Sunshine Coast, outreach worker Nick Gaskin holds hope for forty new beds
Continue readingSCRD report: affordable housing on the Coast is fraught with difficulties
(by Joanna Piros) If the owners wanted to, 2,209 potential homes could be built on rural residential lots on the Sunshine
Continue readingGibsons and SCRD are looking at options for tiny houses
(by Joanna Piros) Horror stories about the lack of affordable and/or rental housing on the Sunshine Coast are feeding the
Continue readingFive years homeless in the woods: “The isolation was the worst. Nobody sees you”
(by Margot Grant) Fox is 29. His parents in Port Coquitlam sold him to a pedophile when he was 11.
Continue readingAffordable housing project on the Coast launches Go Fund Me campaign
(by Rik Jespersen) Pamela Robertson has a big dream for tiny houses on the Sunshine Coast. Robertson and a group
Continue readingWhat is Airbnb doing to long-term rentals on the Coast?
(by Margot Grant) At the middle of this month, Airbnb listed four bachelor suites on the Sunshine Coast, 47 one-bedroom
Continue reading“I worked all my life and never thought I could be homeless when I retire”
(by Margot Grant) Caren Cameron (59) has a permanent job position as a special education assistant at Kinnikinnick Elementary School
Continue readingLack of affordable rentals on the Coast: working mom with three kids homeless soon
(by Margot Grant) Karen* (34) works at a store in Gibsons. She has three children (ten, eight and five) and
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