Urban Village moving ahead

PRINCE GEORGE – With Council approving the final step of a re-zoning application, the Prince George Aboriginal Housing Society is set to move on its urban village plans.

It will start with Phase One, which will including 50 townhouses, a long Bowser Avenue. The Urban Village concept provides housing “from cradle to grave,” and is a far cry from the typical model employed by the Housing Society.

“We started in the 1980’s. The model then for housing that was subsidized or housing that was affordable had certain elements to them. Take existing property, put a mortgage on it and subsidize that mortgage, for example. That’s just the way it was back then.” The urban village model will, hopefully, consolidate some of the 200 properties the society owns.