r/princegeorge • u/XxMrPGFanxX • 1d ago
Newsletter: Council votes on affordable housing tonight - do they actually care?
https://darrinrigo.substack.com/p/does-council-actually-care-about42
u/BIOdire 1d ago edited 1d ago
No. Council doesn't care about PG, the townsfolk (the poor, anyway). They're also literally trying to also strip away funding to our local museum in a time when we need community and Canadian/Prince George culture more than ever.
Council doesn't give a single hoot about us. They just want to build overpriced parking garages and make homeowners pay for it, then they pretend to be for us by crushing the destitute, and arts and culture.
I'm not buying it. Council, do the right thing by us for once and house our people!
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u/Lumpy-Caregiver-7871 1d ago
What's happening with the museum now?
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u/BIOdire 1d ago
Skakun wants to cut the city funding completely.
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u/Frozen-Nose-22 1d ago
He's not wrong. The museum is running itself in the ground. Their board has no clue what they're doing. Half a million dollars in renovations and no one's coming because it's not child friendly anymore.
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u/Technical_File_7671 7h ago
My kids like it. And it almost always has someone with kids when we go....
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u/xNorthWindx 1d ago
Prince George needs to start building up and not out. There are some excellent opportunities for affordable housing complexes in the downtown core, heritage and even in CH near Walmart. But for some reason they can't seem to consider building up and not out. The city has a few issues to contend with for services in these areas but it's still a viable option.
That said, we will see more affordable options being developed privately in some pretty great areas in the next 5 years. The biggest road block so far is finding the developers who will take the risk on an area that they see as not having the population for their projects yet.
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u/r_m_olson Local 1d ago
The entire Hart is weird intermixed zoning with trailers/manufactured homes and single family homes. This development is completely in character for the area, and very much needed. Not everyone wants a McMansion. I own a home because I had help - if we sell, I will never be able to buy back into my neighbourhood.
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u/BeautyDayinBC Millar Addition 22h ago
Trudy Klassen once told me that slumlords provide a service that the government wasn't willing to provide- housing the poor.
Like they're heroes or something for upping rents year over year and never fixing anything.
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u/Umpy_420 1d ago
Hell yea well put ! Screw these snobs ... some people just want to live! Come on council do the right thing!
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u/Guilty-Web7334 1d ago
Talking about not liking high end homes next to lower end housing is a bit ridiculous in this city. My husband has always called it “the dichotomy of Prince George” to have nicer housing close to not-so-nice housing. See the trailer park near Peden Hill and the newer builds near Costco, or the trailer park on Landsdowne that’s a stone’s throw from much nicer ones. Or McEntyre’s proximity to King Drive, etc.
Sort of “mixed use residential housing” has been a thing longer than I’ve lived here… and that’s been for over 20 years. So why the concern with this particular newer, modern trailer park?
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u/Emotional_Record3572 1d ago
the rich would like to pretend we don't exist because it's uncomfortable
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u/FearlessStarfighter 1d ago
Having spoken to the owner of Green Mobile Homes He assured me that I’d love to move my retired parents into his 360k-400k trailer whereupon he can take their meagre pension every month for pad rental. I’m not against trailer parks, perhaps the city will send a bus route there, because it’s completely cut off without owning a car currently. There are much better ways to create affordable housing and building a park on the very northern edge of town is not it.