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BC Housing is warning of scammers targeting recipients of a support scheme for elderly low-income renters, just one day after it was announced.

The CEO of Apex Western Homes thinks it may be because the units have gas installed instead of electricity and that is the reason BC Housing rejected the building.

The measure will put a 20 per cent tax on profits for homes sold within the first year of purchase, sliding to zero per cent over the second year.

The now-72-year-old ended up living in her car for a year and since last May she's been living in the Travelodge in North Vancouver.

As a part of its housing plan, B.C.'s NDP government has already unveiled new rules for cities that will require them to allow increased density near transit hubs. 

While cracks in the foundation of the building are the issue many are talking about and working to rectify, it's less tangible issues weighing on them.

Construction on the UBC Okanagan tower in downtown Kelowna, B.C., is forcing the evacuation of a nearby housing complex over rising safety concerns.

The City of Kelowna called a meeting Sunday and told those affected that they had three days to get their belongings and leave.

“For 44 years, Terry Fox has been an inspiration to Canadians and we are thrilled to be entrusted with the stewardship of this important collection."

“At a time when local news coverage is in decline, we are thrilled to expand our newscast at 11 p.m. to one hour,” Bhupinder S. Hundal, news director and station manager said.

He said he was sitting in some traffic when he coughed, then felt a pain on his right side and what felt like a kick to the back of the head.

Keith Light, 77, is still living in a recreational vehicle outside a Walmart in East Vancouver. He's been on BC Housing's waiting list for subsidized housing for two years.

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A developer has proposed building more than 5,800 housing units on the Halifax Exhibition Centre lands, but a councillor and some residents have concerns about the project.

The single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel in Gastown was consumed by fire on April 11, 2022, killing 68-year-old Mary Garlow and 53-year-old Dennis Guay.

An empty lot on Pacific Avenue in Kelowna, B.C., will soon be home to 20 complex-care and 20 supportive housing units.

A community hub promised last March for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside appears to still be under construction.

Kelowna firefighters battled a small brush fire near Highway 97 and McCurdy Road on Tuesday morning.

The Bank of Canada's governing council says the conditions for interest rate cuts should materialize this year, but the housing market is a risk to the inflation outlook.

CEO Mirko Bibic is appearing before the House of Commons heritage committee Thursday after being ordered to appear by parliamentarians.