Media Room

      For Immediate Release: Voters and Candidates Urged to Make Housing Central in Provincial Election Campaign Co-op and non-profit housing sectors outline key asks to address worsening crisis... Read more

Seniors’ homelessness continues to increase while Indigenous people remain significantly overrepresented; additionally, racial identity data collected for the first time in a regional count reveals that Black people were found... Read more

The Province, through BC Housing, and the City of Vancouver, the BC Non-Profit Housing Association and the Pembina Institute, are working together to find ways to make homes safer, more... Read more

VANCOUVER, BC (June 15, 2020) – For BC’s non-profit housing providers, the COVID-19 pandemic created tremendous challenges: keeping tenants safe and sociallydistanced; decreasing revenue; staff shortages; lack of personal protective... Read more

For Immediate Release: COVID-19 Response Initiative HousingJobMatch.ca Connects Unemployed Workers with Housing Providers Needing Additional Support Matchmaking website aims to help connect those impacted by unprecedented COVID-19 job loss ... Read more

News Release: More than 1,200 volunteers conducting the 2020 Homeless Count in Metro Vancouver VANCOUVER, BC (March 4, 2020) – The 2020 Homeless Count is taking place in communities throughout... Read more

2020 Homeless Count in Metro Vancouver Media Advisory VANCOUVER, BC (March 2, 2020) WHAT: The 2020 Homeless Count in Metro Vancouver will take place throughout the region over a 24-hour period... Read more

BC Budget: Delayed Investments Will Only Make BC’s Housing Crisis Worse Housing advocates express disappointment in 2020 provincial budget VICTORIA, BC (February 18, 2020) – The lack of new investments in... Read more

    Media Advisory: Housing Advocates Available to Comment on 2020 Provincial Budget Vancouver, BC (Feb. 13, 2020) – Media are advised that Thom Armstrong, CEO of the Co-operative Housing Federation... Read more

MEDIA ADVISORY: Volunteers needed for 2020 Homeless Count in Metro Vancouver Approximately 1,200 volunteers are needed in communities throughout the region to conduct surveys on the evening of March 3... Read more