Housing crisis

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The shortage of housing in
North Vancouver District
and ways to alleviate the
problem dominated the
regular District council
meeting last week, although
the subject was only ap-
proached indirectly.

While the items on the
agenda only concerned
approval of a tender notice
for a new subdivision and a
report on the methods of

disposing of council
property, some _ council
members used the _ op-
portunity to voice their
individual concerns about
housing.

While council approved a
tender notice for a 55-unit
development at the top of
Underwood Avenue in Lynn
Valley, Alderman Ernie
Crist expressed concern that
the standard tender notice
made the . developer
responsible for the safety of
the site.

However, Alderman Mary
Segal said she approved of
the new multi-family
development.

“This is a good example of
how we can meet our very
pressing housing needs in the
District,” she said.

“There is no question that
we are pricing ourselves out
of the single family market,”
she went on, and said that
she felt the new develop-
ment “is a very good
compromise.”

Alderman Jim Ball was
more cautious in praising the
new development.

“If they (other council

members) think this is going
to provide low cost housing
for anybody they must have
been smoking the opium
pipe,” he said.

In another matter, council
voted to retain their present
method of disposing of
District land by public
tender.

But, in a change in policy,
council decided that in
certain circumstances the
District will dispose of land
by public auction.

Segal said she was not in
favour of the public auc-
tioning of land because “the
function of an auction is to
get a high price ... and the
criticism in terms of housing
and housing stock is that we
are pricing ourselves way out
of the market except for the
very rich.”

As the discussion moved
to more general aspects of
housing, Crist said, “if this’
council is really serious let’s
investigate getting into the
housing business.

He said the District should
provide municipal housing.

Alderman Mike Lakes
mentioned a recent article in
a real estate newspaper in
which the District’ was
“thoroughly savaged”
concerning the price of land
in the municipality.

The article was a report of
a talk to the real estate board
in which the speaker said
there was no land available
in the District.

“I'd like to see the man
give particulars to us,” Lakes
said.

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