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Redevelopment of a lower-cost housing complex on Blanshard Street into nine new buildings containing 900 rental units has hit a hurdle after B.C. Housing said it would not include childcare in the first phase, raising the ire of city council.
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On Thursday, council decided to delay considering the childcare request for a week in order to get more information from the provincial housing organization.
In a letter to the city last October, Lauren Antifeau, B.C. Housing’s director of redevelopment, said the daycare was initially planned for the ground floor of the first phase, but that was contingent on grant funding from the Ministry of Education and Child Care.
Antifeau said that funding stream has dried up, and they are now proposing that childcare be provided in one of the later phases.
To replace the missing childcare, B.C. Housing is proposing four additional residential units in the first phase of building, meaning 110 new housing units instead of 106.
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