For a plan that’s been almost a year and a half in the making, Premier David Eby’s marquee public housing program, BC Builds, landed with an unimpressive thud Tuesday.
What had been billed as the centrepiece of the NDP’s ambitious housing agenda, and one of Eby’s biggest promises during the 2022 NDP leadership campaign, ended up debuting as a vague, small-scale, underwhelming initiative built largely upon $2 billion in recycled funding from the shuttered BC HousingHub.
The launch consisted of 400 apartments in three projects located on public land in North Vancouver, Duncan and Gibsons. Construction could start this summer --- MAYBE
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