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Housing Minister David Eby assumed the political risk of endorsing the Woodland Park development before a public hearing Tuesday, describing the project as a “litmus test” of the effort to improve the mix of affordable housing in Metro Vancouver.
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Eby welcomed the outcome after council approved the project by a vote of five to one, after a four-hour hearing where many spoke in opposition.
But his was a qualified sigh of relief. Approval for the 2,000 units of social, rental and market housing appears to be conditional on the construction of a SkyTrain station near the Woodland Park site.
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“This particular project is representative of the volume and the kind of housing we need to be building right now across Metro Vancouver,” said Eby citing the balance of rental, social and other kinds of housing in the Woodland Park project.
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“The folks who can’t afford to live in Metro Vancouver are the people who make our economy go,” the housing minister told Gloria Macarenko on CBC’s On the Coast on Monday. “They are working in the service industry. They’re working, doing key jobs to make cities run, and they need to have housing options.”
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