Click on the link to read:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/11/24/Little-Mountain-Could-Be-Model-Affordable-Housing/
In this Tyee article Chudnovsky replays the major events of the last 14 years and comments on the latest chapter.
Where does the record show that Holborn has respected any of its responsibilities to the province, to the city, and most significantly, to the former low income community over the past 14 years? And we might ask, why should they respect them? The reason is, that there have been no contractual or financial incentives for them to do so.
Okay, there was one obligation to the City of Vancouver, that stipulated that the replacement social housing had to built FIRST — and now it’s gone too thanks to ABC. For the tenants who were promised to return in 2010, has all hope vanished, of ever returning to a home; or will Holborn finally live up to a promise. We shall see in two years. And congratulations to Holborn for playing politics with provincial and civic politicians so expertly.
For the children who were forced away from Little Mountain, BC Housing gives them no hope, as we heard on CBC Radio on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. BC Housing doesn’t want them coming back. Click on the link to listen:
