Editor:
I think the provincial NDP is doing a great job trying to get a plan to provide low-cost housing.
Every little detail seems to be an issue of rejection by the BC Liberals. I remember them when they were the government of the day. They did not do one solid thing to address the problem in the 16 years they were in government.
They at the time and, before them, the Social Credit, avoided doing anything. Social Credit is the very reason there is no low-cost housing in Metro Vancouver, and in all towns in cities in British Columbia. Social Credit sold all the Expo lands to a foreign buyer and started the problem we now are experiencing.
BC Liberals had an opportunity to correct this by getting low-cost housing built around SkyTrain stations, but instead sold them to developers to build high-end housing.
Yes, there was an NDP government, and they did not manage to get it started either. But the BC NDP was not in government as long as the BC Liberals, and did not have the opportunity that BC Liberals had.
Hank Borden
