Dan Fumano & Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun, March 23, 2019
The city of Vancouver’s places of worship, which sit upon more than $3.4 billion of real estate, are getting into the housing game more than ever before, scaling projects skywards in an attempt to benefit both their congregations and a community facing a housing crisis.
Religious groups have long provided housing. In past generations, those efforts focused on helping vulnerable populations with shelter beds for the homeless,