Vancouver announces big non-market housing project

The City of Vancouver is beefing up its long-term rental stock by allowing development of 1,039 co-op homes on seven city-owned sites, from the Downtown Eastside to the new River District south of Marine Drive.
And the non-profit developer is touting this model as the answer to Metro Vancouver’s rental housing shortage.
The co-op housing, styled after the co-op rentals built in the 1980s and ’90s, but self-sustaining, will provide homes for 2,000 Vancouverites who are part of househo