Crossroads Inn to receive funding for climate change resilient renovations
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KAMLOOPS — A social housing building in Kamloops is one of six residential buildings that will receive renovations to make it more resilient to extreme weather.
The B.C. government announced Monday (March 21) that Crossroads Inn, operated by ASK Wellness Society, will have renovations begin in fall 2022. The buildings’ tenants will not be displaced from their homes during renovations as most of the work will be on the buildings’ exteriors.
The province says design teams have been selected to develop retrofit designs for six low- to mid-rise social housing buildings in Kamloops, Coquitlam, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Vancouver and Victoria. The six design teams will exchange ideas on cutting carbon pollution – including technological solutions such as heat pumps, heat-recovery systems and low-carbon materials – driving down energy demand and improving climate-change resiliency and will explore innovations in seismic upgrades and on-site solar generation.
“The climate emergency has arrived and people living in non-profit housing are among the most vulnerable to its impacts,” Jill Atkey, BC Non-Profit Housing Association CEO says. “At the same time, the non-profit housing sector is one of the largest energy consumers in B.C. The six projects announced today will help us develop a path forward to ensure people are protected and our footprint is reduced.”
