S1E1 - Creating Affordable Housing

Show Notes

This episode includes four guests, each representing organizations in B.C.’s community housing industry that are working together to help deliver affordable homes to families and individuals:

·  Shayne Ramsay, CEO, BC Housing - @Shayne_Ramsay

·  Margaret Pfoh, CEO, Aboriginal Housing Management Association - @MPfoh 

·  Jill Atkey, CEO, BC Non-Profit Housing Association - @jfatkey

·  Thom Armstrong, CEO, Co-operative Housing Federation - @thomjarmstrong

We discuss how the rise in housing prices is impacting renters, a need for an Indigenous housing strategy and how B.C.’s approach to affordable housing is a model that other cities and countries around the world are watching.

Learn more about BC Housing here: bchousing.org

What is Let's Talk Housing: A Podcast by BC Housing?

British Columbia is in the grips of a housing affordability crisis decades in the making. The Province has an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis through the largest investment in housing affordability in B.C.’s history. Tasked with building tens of thousands of homes in hundreds of communities is BC Housing, the agency responsible for developing, managing, and administering a wide range of subsidized housing and homelessness services across the province. BC Housing doesn’t do this alone, they work with hundreds of partners. In this podcast, you’ll hear from those tackling the crisis head on.