B.C. Seniors' Housing Market Survey

Sustaining the non-profit housing sector in British Columbia

B.C. Innovative Housing Society [ British Columbia Innovative Housing Society ]

We need social housing in British Columbia and if we have to do it we are going to expand with hundreds and hundreds of new social housing units”.

I mentioned already the important work of the Native Women's Association of Canada on this issue. Its work builds on and complements the work of more than 45 studies, commissions, inquiries, and other reports, including the 1999 Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba, the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, the House of Commons status of women committee, the B.C. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, and many others.

The federal government pulling out of an annual social housing program that brought as many as 2,000 units of affordable housing to BC.

VI. Whistleblowing: ensure that the discharge authority is informed, at least on an annual basis, of all completed investigations into allegations of serious wrongdoing, including the date the allegation was made, a description of alleged wrongdoing, action taken within the Commission, date of disclosure to the Court of Auditors and/or Anti-Fraud Office and details of any follow-up action including the launching of administrative or disciplinary proceedings and measures taken to protect the legal position of the whistleblower in question; welcomes that the Commission adopted, on 29 November 2000, a consultative ...[+++]document on raising concerns about serious wrongdoing (SEC(2000) 2078 ); welcomes that the Commission has satisfactorily investigated allegations, forwarded by the Committee on Budgetary Control, including those regarding the use of Community funds in Bolivia (technical assistance), Columbia (Tumaco housing project) and Lebanon (UNRWA refugee camps);