There are many things I love about serving my community as an MLA, but topping the list is when I meet people whose lives have been positively impacted by the work of our government. This happened recently when I met Gordon, who lives in my constituency of Esquimalt-Metchosin. Gordon is on a CPP disability pension, […]
supportive housing
CleanBC Supports Affordable, Lower-Carbon Living
On Bowen Road in Nanaimo, there’s a building complex that doesn’t look quite like anything else around it: Nuutsumuut Lelum, a new joint housing project from the Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre and BC Housing, is cedar-sided and built to an internationally recognized ultra-efficient energy use standard called “Passive House”. It’s a new home to 25 Indigenous […]
Working together to end homelessness
This article was originally published on Georgia Straight. Homelessness has been hurting too many people in our province for too long. Thousands of British Columbians are without a home. They are living on the streets, in parks, tents, in shelters, or in cars. Homelessness hurts the health of our communities, our economy, it hurts those […]
A step forward in student housing
Two years ago, when the BC Liberals were still in power and refusing to address the housing crisis, I wrote in to the Times Colonist calling on the provincial government to at least get out of the way and allow universities to build more on-campus student housing. I had recently met with two UVic students, […]
Supportive housing works and we need more of it
Everyone deserves a home. Unfortunately, not everyone in BC can afford one. Nowhere is this more evident than in my home community of Maple Ridge, where the present tent city has been in place since early 2017. Sadly, most communities in BC are now familiar with the realities of tent cities. They create great difficulties […]