Your local housing advocates are still hard at work and have plenty of news to share.

Miller Road building: the Lookout Society and BIRCH are still aiming to have shovels in the ground by the end of 2025.

Miller Road building: we are working to update the building plans to accommodate new building code and accessibility requirements.

Miller Road building: we are also working on the first of two internal approval milestones for our grant funding, which should happen in April/May. 

Miller Road building: we have hired a general contractor to work alongside the design team as we ramp up for construction.

Miller Road building: there is a full team site meeting happening in March so that all the consultants, agencies, and societies can meet in person, go over the site together and “break bread.”

BIRCH: BIM council has instructed staff to draft a partnering agreement with BIRCH to form a Community Owned Housing Organization, and we are getting close to finishing the agreement and getting on with the exciting work.

Lot 1: our report on the development of this lot to BIM’s Mayor and Council is nearly wrapped up.