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2025/09
How Ottawa Community Housing is building a sustainable future August 26, 2025 Guest: Daniel Dicaire, senior manager of sustainability and conservation at Ottawa Community Housing Corporation. As climate change becomes an increasingly urgent concern, the housing sector has a crucial role to play. Daniel Dicaire, senior manager of sustainability and conservation at Ottawa Community Housing…
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2026-07-01
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2025/08
Non-profits are racing to save affordable apartments. But critics say we should just build new ones
B.C. earmarked $500M so not-for-profits could buy rental units and keep them affordable Angela Hennessy · CBC News · Posted: Jun 10, 2025 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 10 Marleny Ozuna Felix seems to have won the lottery of landlords. For as long as she stays in her building, the single mother of…
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2026-07-01
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2025/08
B.C. sets new 5-year housing orders for 10 more municipalities 40,000 homes to be built over the next 5 years, 14,000 of them below-market rentals The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 21, 2025 1:47 PM PDT | Last Updated: August 21 British Columbia has set new housing targets for a group of 10 more municipalities with the…
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2026-07-01
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2025/08
B.C. housing experts argue in open letter that more supply alone will not solve crisis
27 experts sign letter that urges governments to prioritize affordable housing over market-driven supply Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News · Posted: Aug 19, 2025 5:48 PM PDT | Last Updated: August 20 A number of B.C. urban planners and housing professors are arguing in an open letter to the provincial government that they should stop prioritizing adding…
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2026-07-01
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2025/08
UBC Civil Engineering Leads $8.27M National Initiative to Tackle Housing Supply Through Sustainable Modular Construction
By uyen on March 31, 2025 UBC Civil Engineering is leading a major national research initiative to transform modular construction in Canada, in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and the University of Victoria (UVic). With $8.27 million in funding from a research project supported by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the National Research…
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2026-07-01
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2025/08
Standardized modular housing designs announced for use across B.C.
Standardized four-plex and six-plex projects are ready to start being assembled in Penticton and across B.C. Brennan PhillipsMay 6, 2025 1:04 PM Faster and more affordable homes built in a factory are soon to start rolling out after two standardized models were officially debuted in Penticton at the 2025 Modular Housing Summit on May 5. …
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2026-07-01