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Region’s aging housing needs attention
Rossland and Trail on the older end of the Lower Columbia Region ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
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Housing stock in the Lower Columbia Region is old and not very attainable for the average person, according to a recent presentation. Janet Morton, chair of the Lower Columbia Community Development Team, Attainable Housing
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Committee talked to Rossland council last week. Morton said there were key points that council should consider, the first being the importance of attainable housing. She said that housing should be looked at as a dynamic system requiring regional planning and co-operation. The committee attempts to look at the full-housing spec-
trum, from non-market public housing to market rental and private homes. “Complacency is not an option,� she said, since the housing stock has shown to be quite aged. How old is it? The provincial average for housing older than 40 years is 31.2 per cent, while in the Lower Columbia it is more than
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double at 65.8 per cent. Castlegar jumps out of the trend with a younger housing stock - 43.8 per cent over 40 years old. The numbers don’t look much better when you look at 25 and older. In this category the standard in B.C. is 61.9 per cent, while in the Lower Columbia it is a whopping 90.4 per cent of homes. Castlegar once again runs in at a lower
75.6 per cent. In Rossland, a large proportion of the houses were built from 1920 to 1945. According to Statistics Canada 2006 numbers, 35.1 per cent were of that vintage, only Trail is near that number with a 36.7 per cent. Over 50 per cent of Rossland homes were built between 1946 and 1985. See Aging on P. 3
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