By / TRACY HOLMES
The challenges of building a non-profit housing project combined with increased construction costs mean groundbreaking on a 91-unit affordable and inclusive development in South Surrey won’t be happening this spring as hoped.
UNITI chief executive officer Doug Tennant confirmed this week that the organization – a partnership of Semiahmoo House Society, The Semiahmoo Foundation and Peninsula Estates Housing Society – is now looking to September as a “shovel in the ground date” for the Harmony project.
“It’s been a bit longer than we had hoped to work our way through the different requirements from the City, Province and CMHC,” Tennant said by email, noting the process is both more difficult and more costly for a non-profit project than it is for a private one.
