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Keith Jones: Toronto’s figured out this rental affordability mechanism, why hasn’t Vancouver?

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Vancouver is committed to adding 41,500 new market-rental housing units and amenities through the Broadway plan.

But with the focus on market rents extending to public land, this new housing will not be attainable to many.

Toronto has this mechanism; Ottawa , Ottawa , Kamloops , Muskoka and Halifax also have community housing trusts.

And community housing trusts are a proven mechanism for genuinely affordable non-profit rental, co-op, and affordable home ownership housing to be secured, often nearly immediately, particularly on public lands. Vancouver needs to take a serious look at this mechanism. Vancouver can — and must — put housing to work for the benefit of communities. Keith Jones is a retired kindergarten teacher and a director of the False Creek South Community Housing Trust that was established in 2021 and is ready to incorporate housing that it can manage for the benefit of the community..

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