Premier Furey talks about energy, housing, mental health and addictions with the Premier of B.C.

Furey says all levels of government need to work together to fix this complex issue. He says “What Canadians expect, what they demand and rightfully what they deserve is for different levels of government to work together to address the housing issues. We have to recognize that what’s important for the people of Corner Brook  may not be the same as people in Vancouver.

Finding affordable housing is an issue right across the country. Premier Andrew Furey was in Vancouver yesterday for meetings with British Columbia Premier David Eby. They discussed energy, housing, and mental health and addictions. The province of British Columbia attracts 10,000 new people every 37 days and many social housing buildings are a hundred years old. Premier Furey says he’s learned from B.C with the respect to the housing crunch and marketing dynamics at play. He says “there are parcels of land being investigated currently working with municipalities to ensure that we can unlock those in the right way to new housing developments, new communities even to be developed, Although we don’t have the same pressures as B.C. we are introducing thousands of new Canadians in our province and want to do more.”

Earlier this year government released a five point plan to make housing more affordable. Furey says this will help address the supply and demand issue but more is needed. He says it has to be a combination of different approaches that are aligned with the strategies to openly tackle this very complex problem. Furey says “to try and boil that down into a single soundbyte: it’s insulting to the people struggling to get housing, it’s insulting to change the dynamics and it’s certainly a commonality that we  share in recognizing the complexity and the different levels of government strategies that need to occur in concert and well aligned across levels of government in order to address the complex needs of the housing issue from coast, to coast, to coast.”

Furey says all levels of government need to work together to fix this complex issue. He says “What Canadians expect, what they demand and rightfully what they deserve is for different levels of government to work together to address the housing issues. We have to recognize that what’s important for the people of Corner Brook  may not be the same as people in Vancouver.