Gregor Robertson: Immigrant Services

Non Partisan Association Dept: Both Vision Vancouver's Gregor Robertson and Non-Partisan Association's Suzanne Anton offered different views on how they would work to solve what is expected to be a huge demand for subsidized housing, according to Vancouver Sun. Robertson told a small audience at an event organized by the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. immigrant services agency and Chinese media that he is aware of the significant need. He pointed to a memorandum of agreement the city and the agency signed in April to become partners in an effort to find and build the necessary housing and the overwhelming need for Vancouver's substantial Chinese community to have adequate "culturally appropriate" social seniors housing became a focal point at a mayoral debate Sunday in Chinatown. Earlier this month the University of B.C. released a study estimating that more than 3,000 Chinese-speaking residents of the city will need subsidized housing in the coming decade. But so far most of the effort the city, provincial government and nonprofit housing providers have put into building social housing has not been targeted for the city's cultural constituencies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.