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TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Pauta is recently back frem an ex-
tended stay in Europe where she visited 11 countries. She
loves to sing, with her influences ranging from Madonna to
Spirit of the West.

Funding approved for N.
Shore low-income housing

TWO LARGE social housing pro-
jects on the North Shore have
been awarded funds from the fed-

* eral and provincial governments.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

The Lynn Valley Lions Housing

Society has been granted final ap-
proval for a new $6-million social
housing project that will result in
46 new homes being built for
low-income families in North
Vancouver District.

The project will
two-bedroom units, 22  three-
bedroom units and = six four-
bedroom units for families who
have difficulty finding suitable
and affordable housing.

To ensure that the tenants pay
no more than 30% of their in-
come for rent, annual subsidies
totalling $622,000 will be advanc-
ed to the society once the project

provide 18

is completed and all the units are
occupied.

The federal government will
contribute two-thirds of the

amount through the Canada Mor-
tgage and Housing Corp.
(CMHC) while the provincial gov-
ernment will add one-third of the
cost through the B.C. Housing
Management Commission
(BCHMC), which will also ad-
minister the program.

Both levels of government will
jointly insure the first’ mortgage
financing of $6,031,718 for the
housing developineni.

The provincial government has
leased the development site at
1025-1083 Premier St. to the Lynn

Valley Lions Housing Society for
60 years.

Meanwhile, 88 new homes sill
be built for lower income families
and seniors in West Vancouver
now that the Kilahanee Park
Housing Society has approval to
build a new $8.4 million social
housing project in the district.

Construction of the develop-
ment adjacent to Earl's restaurant
on Marine Drive is to begin tater
this year.

When the project is complete, it
will provide 56 one-bedroom units
for seniors, including two
wheelchair-modified units, plus 14
two-bedroom units, 12  three-
bedroom units, two wheelchair-
modified three-bedroom units and
four four-bedroom units.

The housing will be used for
families and seniors who have dif-
ficulty finding suitabie, affordable
shelter,

As with the tenants in the North
Vancouver District project. the
West Vancouver tenants of the
social housing project will not pay
more than 30% of their income
for rent. Annual subsidies totall-
ing $850,000 will be advanced to
the society once the project is oc-
cupied.

The provincial and federal gov-
ernmments will jointly insure the
first mortvave financing of
$8,405,650 for the housing devel-
opment.

The NKiahanee Park Housing
Society also has a 60-year lease
from the = provincial government
for the development site at 321-
333 Marine Drive in) West Van-
couver.

Friday, May 3, 1991 - North Shore News - 14

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