Housing Minister

• B.C. housing minister in the Okanagan ‘listening and learning’ as he takes aim at the housing crisis

  Thursday, B.C.'s new housing minister Ravi Kahlon was in Vernon getting a sense of the housing situation as he starts work to tackle one of the province's biggest problems.

  Canada

  Jan 19
  
• ‘It’s miserable’: CRAB Park resident can’t wait to leave as province finalizes action plan for encampments

  Two months after David Eby promised to address encampments on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the province is finalizing an action plan to get vulnerable populations housed.

  Politics

  Jan 9
  
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• City, province speeding up 90 new housing units to help address Vancouver tent cities

  B.C. Premier David Eby has previously said he doesn't support tent encampments and believes it’s not a solution to address or curb homelessness.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2022
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• Katrine Conroy in as finance minister as B.C. Premier David Eby names first cabinet

  Katrine Conroy is B.C.’s new Finance Minister, moved after serving as the province’s forests minister for the last two years. She replaces Selina Robinson.

  Politics

  Dec 6, 2022
• Eby welcomes UBCM letter, but says, bottom line: B.C. will not allow 40 people to end up in a park

  B.C. housing minister David Eby says, “I think that everybody understands the situation is incredibly complicated and difficult.”

  Canada

  May 22, 2021
• Minister sets April target to end Vancouver’s Strathcona Park homeless camp

  David Eby says BC Housing is working towards finding housing for the estimated 200 camp residents, but acknowledged a good portion of that would be "transitional" in nature.

  Jan 15, 2021
• Growing homeless camps spark more fire fears in Maple Ridge

  Months after the local homeless camp in Maple Ridge was shut down due to fire concerns and other safety issues, residents say new fire fears are being sparked - by a growing number of homeless encampments cropping up in the city's residential areas.

  News

  Jun 25, 2019
• Province to move ahead with Maple Ridge supportive housing without city’s support

  Earlier this month the housing minister slammed Maple Ridge's own proposed housing plan as "unworkable."

  Mar 20, 2019
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• Métis Nation-Saskatchewan minister removed for ‘philosophical differences’

  Métis Nation-Saskatchewan announced Thursday that Derek Langan has been removed from the position of housing minister.

  Canada

  Nov 1, 2018
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• New NDP ministers tour Vancouver’s tent city, Downtown Eastside

  "A critical piece of it is to get in and talk to people in the community."

  Aug 16, 2017