Modular housing coming

[Drip_Torch]

Olly - it's your perception that everyone is taking away, maybe, just maybe you are wrong and what you see as being taken away is actually adding something positive.

Statistics Canada says the value of building permits issued by municipalities fell in March for the second consecutive month, due in large part to a drop in plans for apartment buildings, particularly in B.C. and Ontario.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Business/ ... s-fall-5.8

Penticton is experiencing a major building boom recently, with the South Okanagan hotel business following suit.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... ss-booming

Penticton is in the the midst of a building boom that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.
Mid-year data released by the City of Penticton this week shows building permit applications up 35 per cent, with inspections up 38 per cent over the same time last year.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... m-underway

[twobits]

Yup....pretty clear that everything is going to hades in a hand basket here cuz we didn't get a water slide in Skaha Park.

The only thing that is going to go to suffer here in the next 4 yrs is the rental availability which is already at less than a 1%. With the new NDP gov't rules, no one in their right mind is going to build rental accommodation. That's how brain dead the NDP are. Create rules that discourage rental property investment in an already near zero vacancy market and pay to build modular housing for people living on the street. They can't even connect the dots that people are living on the street because of the lack of affordable housing and they have just made rules that will lessen the supply of rental accomodation.
Taking away the loophole of leases creating a new term with new conditions was reasonable. Eliminating market values and conditions to apply for something more than the 4% max was stupid and only a knee jerk reaction to Vancouver real estate prices. But that should really not be too surprising seeing as that is the voter market they cater to in order to get into power. Free bridge rides and contolled rent in the lower mainland gets to control the other 97% of BC's land mass and it's residents.

[Laurane]

I completely disagree with your comments. Imagine if the public had not gotten involved regarding Skaha Park

That was the problem..... a bunch of uninformed, almost hysterical people protesting against a business which would have been good for the Skaha end of the city.

Not going to rehash it, but the biggest and best companies in the world actually bring in EXPERTS to make their company do even better. Same goes for cities and small business.

[twobits]

Not going to rehash it, but the biggest and best companies in the world actually bring in EXPERTS to make their company do even better. Same goes for cities and small business.

What experts were brought in? Last I heard the principals behind the proposed water slide pumped out septic tanks and porta potties and built boat docks. Was this incorrect? Who were the EXPERTS brought in?