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Almost 300 new affordable homes coming MetroVancouver, BC Housing partner to build non-market sites in Burnaby and region Lauren Vanderdeen
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Two Burnaby sites are getting money from the province to build new affordable housing. The province announced a partnership with Metro Vancouver Regional District on April 12 that will fund the construction of about 2,000 affordable homes in the region over the next 10 years. The first phase of the projects will include about 660 homes over five sites, 296 of which will be in Burnaby. The province is investing $158 million in that first phase for the five sites over the next three years. At 7730 Sixth St. in South Burnaby next to Eastburn Park, MetroVancouver Housing Corp. will redevelop 30 townhouses into a six-storey non-market rental building with 174 new affordable homes. According to a capital project update from MVHC, the redevelopment has an approved capital budget of $63.8 million and an estimated total project cost of Continued on page 3
Picture of Prehistory: rolf mathewes, a Simon Fraser University paleobotanist who specializes in microscopic fossils of seeds and spores, discusses fossils discovered at Burnaby mountain in the late 1960s. See story, page 3. PHOTO SFU