‘Absolutely no oversight, it appears’; Milobar calls B.C. Housing audit damning for NDP government

May 8, 2023 | 4:09 PM

KAMLOOPS — A new report into a forensic investigation of BC Housing tabled in the legislature has found mismanagement related to a conflict of interest between the former CEO of BC Housing and his spouse, the CEO of Atira Women’s Resource Society.

In March 2021, Premier David Eby, then the minister responsible for housing, ordered an external review be conducted of financial and operational systems at BC Housing. Over the past number of months, the BC United caucus has been calling on the NDP government to release the audit to the public.

After seeing the report for the first time Monday morning (May 8), Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar was left questioning recent BC Housing purchases in the Kamloops area, such as the Fortune Motel and Cherry Avenue apartment building.

“It’s very much in keeping with the type of attitude we are seeing out of the premier, in terms of rushing ahead without any due consultation being done,” said Milobar. “As they always say, it starts at the top. The premier was the housing minister for a couple of years, he should be taking better control of BC Housing and it should have never gotten to be this way under his leadership. But, this is where we are today and it needs to be fixed.”

The independent investigation identified 20 recommendations to improve financial oversight, prevent conflicts of interest, and ensure accountability for public funding being used to provide housing.

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Despite that, Milobar stated the opposition still has a number of questions about the organization and the fully NDP-appointed board of directors.

“I think it is very disappointing that, again, the disconnect between the government talking about a dollar figure of a certain program equating to results,” said Milobar. “In this case they continually talk about all of their investment into housing through BC Housing at a time when they had absolutely no oversight, it appears, on some of the basic fundamentals around insuring conflict of interest, value for money, where was the money even going, were housing providers being treated equitably or was one seeing massive increases to their funding when everybody else was staying relatively at the same level as they were in the past?”

by Michael Reeve

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‘Absolutely no oversight, it appears’; Milobar calls B.C. Housing audit damning for NDP government

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