The province recently announced its plan to make housing more affordable for British Columbians, and I think that while the intentions of the plan seem good, it ends up just being more of the same.
The new agency announced on Feb. 13 is supposed to create more rental housing for middle-income people, or those with household incomes between $84,000 and $190,000, which the province says will let more households “find below-market rent and spend less than 30 per cent of their income on rent.
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