A long-planned social housing-detox centre that will be built over a city block in East Vancouver is now estimated to cost close to $200 million and won’t be completed until 2028.
BIV reported March 7 that construction was expected to begin this month on the project, with the provincial government saying at the time that cost and more details would be released “very soon.”
On Wednesday, the government issued a news release with the cost breakdown, including news that the federal government is now on board with the project:
• The provincial government via BC Housing will provide approximately $32 million through an Affordable Rental Housing grant.
• The
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