Christiane Bordier

Letter to the editors, unprinted by the Vancouver Sun

Why is the builder of the condos, Marc Williams, at 138 E. Hastings, getting a private $23 million loan from BC Housing to build a condo complex in the 100 block? The mandate of BC Housing, financed by public taxes, is to create affordable housing for the poorest people in BC, not to finance someone who used low income people to demolish the Pantages without any protection, under minimal wages, and let the ground stay vacant for almost a year so that thousands of rats moved in, and eventually forced the city to make him either clean it up or bill him for the clean up. (…)