Applications for living at Co:Here housing are available each fall for a two month window. Salsbury Community Society, our building operator, will be accepting applications from September 1 – October 31, 2019. If you know of anyone who is interested in living at Co:Here in the future and would like to add their name to the wait list pool, please encourage them to apply through Salsbury’s website or by contacting the Salsbury Community Society staff.
Affordable rental housing for the homeless opens in East Vancouver By Kenneth Chan Daily Hive Vancouver A 26-unit affordable rental housing project along the Commercial Drive Corridor in East Vancouver officially opened yesterday. Co:Here Housing Community is located within a newly-built, four-storey building at 1723 Victoria Drive – the southwest corner of the intersection of East 1st Avenue and Victoria Drive. It has 18 homes for people who are homeless or are at risk of…
Unique affordable rental housing project opens in Vancouver Canadian Apartment A unique affordable rental housing project called Co:Here has officially opened in Vancouver’s Commercial Drive and Grandview-Woodlands neighbourhood. The 26-unit building is supported through partnerships between the Governments of Canada and British Columbia, Streetohome Foundation, and many other organizations and individuals. “These new homes represent an innovative approach to supportive housing, with the fostering of a network of support in the building,” said Honourable Shane…
From Church Parking Lot to Groundbreaking Housing Community By Derek Witten Regent World Co:Here Housing Community Pursues Deep Equality across Socio-Economic Barriers – Clean from hard drugs for two years and living in the brand new Co:Here Housing Community, Todd K’s[i] journey of recovery has been long. He began drinking heavily at fifteen, and was living on the streets of Vancouver with a crack cocaine addiction by twenty-two. He describes the pattern he fell into:…
Co:Here affordable, community oriented housing is ready! By Zoe Ducklow Canadian Baptists of Western Canada After many years of working towards it, Grandview Calvary Baptist Church’s vision of supportive community-based housing has now come to life. Co:Here is a 26-unit apartment building, deliberately designed to foster community among residents. Each unit is self contained, with full kitchens, bathrooms and storage. And there’s a lot of common space, which is an intentional part of Co:Here’s design….
Co:Here Housing Community all set to welcome new residents By Flyn Ritchie Church for Vancouver The Co:Here Housing Community has been dedicated, celebrated and blessed. The only thing left now is to wait for final approval for 34 residents to move in to the brand new building at the corner of 1st and Victoria in east Vancouver – and that should happen any day now. During both its February 11 services, members of Grandview Calvary…
Community groups come together to support Surrey’s most vulnerable By Aaron Hinks Surrey Now-Leader Government, social workers, faith groups discuss poverty at housing workshop – Vancouver’s Grandview Calvary Baptist Church pastor Tim Dickau told the group how his church, over 15 years, was able to use its parking lot for a four-storey social housing complex, which they labelled ‘Co: Here Housing Community.’ The church is a month away from finishing the $12-million project, which includes…
Tim Dickau, Church for Vancouver: Last Thursday (June 30) Grandview Calvary Baptist Church hosted a ground-breaking event for the Co:Here Housing Community project – a four-storey affordable housing complex with 26 self-contained units.
Flyn Ritchie, Church for Vancouver: A couple of years ago, neighbours reacted vigorously against the city’s Grandview-Woodland Community Plan which, in their view, involved too little consultation and proposed too much density and too many high buildings, especially near the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station.
CMHC & BC Housing News Release: A new affordable housing development under construction in East Vancouver will increase options for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, while providing a unique approach to supportive housing.
