Thursday, February 23, 2023

City of Prince Rupert's Non Market Housing initiatives gain some progress, with plans to apply for CMHC Rapid Housing funding

Plans for non market housing in Prince Rupert made some 
progress at Tuesday's Council session


Prince Rupert City Council gave the go ahead on Tuesday for city staff to move forward with applications towards a Federal housing initiative, that construct some non market housing in the community.

The approval to seek out the funding came following a report and presentation from the City's Planning Manager Myfannwy Pope, which outlined the scope of the request of Council. 


There were few follow up comments towards her report, with only Councillor Cunningham making an inquiry towards the notes asking for a location for the housing proposals.

"Where exactly is this application for, it's just a blanket application as it sits now, do we have specific areas that we are looking at"-- Councillor Barry Cunningham

In response, Ms. Pope indicated that there were two locations proposed for the housing.

"We have some proposed locations and those will be indicated in the applications that we submit, there's two sites right now that we're looking at. One is city owned and one is downtown" -- City of Prince Rupert Planning Manager Myfannwy Pope

You can review the short discussion to the topic from the City's Video Archive starting at the 15 minute mark.



While the locations for the proposed housing were not identified on Tuesday evening, the last review towards the theme of the Rapid Housing initiative came back in January.

At that time the two sites noted for potential development were both on Third Avenue West, one at the corner of McBride and Third, the other on the current site of the debris field from the Belmont Hotel Fire.



More items of interest from the Tuesday Council Session can be reviewed here.

A wider overview of Housing issues in the community can be explored from our archive page.

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