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New affordable homes for Urban Indigenous and new Canadian Residents open in the West End
A development that is providing 68 affordable studio, one-, and two-bedroom homes has opened in the West End at 1395 Davie Street. Managed by Vancouver Native Housing Society (VNHS), the new building was created at no cost to the City of Vancouver through our inclusionary zoning policy. The building was delivered through density bonusing as part of Marcon’s development project at 1180 Broughton, achieving the goals of the West End Plan Public Benefits Strategy.
VNHS’s mandate is to provide safe, secure, and affordable housing to both the urban Indigenous community, as well as non-Indigenous people, seniors, youth, women at risk, persons living with mental illness, and the homeless and homeless at risk populations. VNHS is also operating the adjacent 27-unit affordable housing project.
Creating homes for Indigenous residents continues to be a priority for us. People who identify as Indigenous continue to be vastly over-represented in our Homelessness Count results, making up 39% of Vancouver’s homeless population, but only 2% of the city’s overall population, based on 2020 data.