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The local real-estate and development fraternity has started a campaign to help children at BC Children’s Hospital. Organizers call the undertaking Building For Kids and want you to know that if you see the logo above on a new-home project’s signage or promotional material, someone, company or individual, involved in the development is a participant in the campaign.
The Salient Group’s Terminus project in Gastown will be the first in Vancouver to display the Building for Kids logo.
“The BC real estate and development sector is very busy right now, but we recognize that being extremely busy is just business as usual at BC Children’s Hospital,” said David Podmore, who is chair of Concert Properties and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. “We also know how important it is to have the right tools for the job.”
For more information about the program contact Leah Nyrose ([email protected]) or visit bcchf.ca/buildingforkids
BUILDERS COLLECT COATS
The 10th annual “Coats for Kids” campaign by local home builders collected more than 3,000 coats, blankets and sweaters from the public, Peter Simpson of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association reports.
GOOD NEWS FOR LANDLORDS IS BAD NEWS FOR RENTERS
Good news for landlords in Victoria and Vancouver is bad news for renters. According to information released this week by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. the average rental-apartment vacancy-rate in Canada’s 28 major cities was unchanged at 2.7 per cent in October, 2005 compared with last year.
Of the cities surveyed Victoria had the lowest vacancy rate at 0.5 per cent. Vancouver was not not far behind at 1.4 per cent.
Separately CMHC is calling for submissions to an affordable-housing competition it sponsors. Among the 16 categories are buildings; housing finance; neighbourhoods; housing with resident services; and, new for 2006, aboriginal housing.
www.cmhc.ca
© The Vancouver Sun 2005