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Originally Posted by logan5
All this development that is going to happen around Skytrain stations with the 20% social housing gives the City a good opportunity to spread out the social housing that is currently concentrated in downtown Vancouver, and especially the DTES.
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So far the developments that are proposed around SkyTrain stations are almost all rental projects, and they are required only to have a proportion of the units renting below market. (And as we've just seen, only if the development economics work to require those units).
The social housing that would be given to the City as social housing would be when the developer wants to build a strata project. We're not seeing those these days. When and if we do, they'll be social housing like the ones on Davie (Mirabel and Jervis) or Robson (Landmark). They'll probably be managed by a non-market housing agency, and you probably wouldn't be able to distinguish them from the condos upstairs.
Those types of social housing provide somewhere to rent for people with modest or average wages. They offer a secure alternative to private sector rentals. They're don't provide anything but the usual amenity requirements of a rental building, unlike the recently developed supportive housing concentrated in the DTES and Downtown, that provide homes and services to a different set of tenants, who often have specific and sometimes complex challenges.
There are at least seven new supportive housing projects currently under construction in the DTES, (so that won't reduce trhe concentration in an area where there are already medical and other support services). There are also several other social housing projects being built in Downtown, some of which will be housing co-ops. Future social projects, if they're developed, will have social housing as part of a larger condo building (like 601 Beach, or 1444 Alberni).
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