Lori Iannidinardo CVRD Director for Area D Cowichan Bay

Social Planning Cowichan and the Cowichan Regional Affordable Housing Directorate invite you to help design a project that will address the affordable housing need in the Cowichan Region.

The Cowichan Valley Regional Hospital District (CVRHC) has asked Social Planning Cowichan to convene stakeholders to determine how funding for affordable housing can best be used in the Cowichan Region. We are asking participants to design a project that will provide housing or housing supports to people who are in need of affordable housing.

Through a series of four workshops we will share information about our region’s housing needs and ideas for possible solutions. Design sessions will provide you with the opportunity to help create solutions that meet the unique needs of our Region. You and other participants will select the project criteria that best meets the community’s needs. Participants will select the best project to create a Request for Proposals (RFP) for CVHRD funding to create the project in the Cowichan Region.

We are inviting you to come and participate in this process to design a made in Cowichan solution for affordable housing. We will host four 3-hour workshops. The first is November 17th at the Island Savings Centre in Duncan. The remaining workshops are on December 1st, December 12th, and January 12th. We encourage you to attend as many as you can. Please RSVP to this invitation by November 12. For further information please contact Linden Collette at 250-746-1004 ext 250 or info@socialplanningcowichan.org.

We look forward to the opportunity to work with you.

Warm regards,

Anne Matheson, Co-Chair,
Cowichan Regional Affordable Housing Directorate

Linden Collette, Executive Director,
Social Planning Cowichan
135 Third Street
Duncan, BC V9L 1R9
250-746-1004 ext 250
www.socialplanningcowichan.org