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[Nparker]

Now maybe Hudson House can get a mural to cover its unappealing east facing facade.

 

[Mike K.]

Which side is that mural on, np?

[Nparker]

The mural is on a bit of western facing wall on the Fisgard side of Hudson House.

[Mike K.]

Ah, got it. It looks quite nice.

[Nparker]

It just sort of jumps out at you if you're walking east along the 700 block of Fisgard Street.

[Matt R.]

Probably about the same price as a crosswalk at UVic.

[aastra]

 

It just sort of jumps out at you if you're walking east along the 700 block of Fisgard Street.

 

Interesting. I wonder what technology they're using for that?

[Nparker]

Interesting. I wonder what technology they're using for that?

I believe it is some sort of holographic projection, and by "it", I mean the HH building. The mural though is real.

[aastra]

Thanks for the info.

[Victoria Watcher]

Freeland touts 'affordable' development renting 330-square-foot units for $1,600

 

 

The deputy PM also quoted the novelist Margaret Laurence, saying that B.C. is like 'dying and going to heaven' for Prairie people

 

“This is an apartment building that has 227 apartments for low and middle income Canadians and it was built thanks to our Apartment Construction Loan Program,” said Freeland in a video shot at the site of Hudson House, a new 23-storey rental high-rise in Victoria, B.C.

 

https://nationalpost...ordable-housing

[Victoria Watcher]

On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland flew to Victoria, B.C. for the opening of a new apartment tower funded by a $100-million federal affordable housing loan. Freeland lauded the apartment block as the future of Canadian housing and an example of the Trudeau government’s commitment to build “more homes, faster.”

 

Such initiatives, Freeland boasted, would help end the housing affordability crisis.

 

The truth, however, is far removed from Freeland’s hype. Someone may as well have said to her, “The people are unable to afford roofs over their heads, Madame Minister,” to which she could easily have replied, “Then let them move into government-subsidized housing.”

 

What Antione-Freeland didn’t mention (but should have) is that the Hudson House development, which benefited greatly from Ottawa’s Apartment Construction Loan Program, offers rents that are more expensive than average rents in the B.C. capital.

 

That hardly makes this the way forward to more affordable housing.

 

According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the average rent in Victoria is $1,516 a month for an apartment of just about 700 square feet. Meanwhile, at Hudson House, the cheapest rent is $1,680 a month – 11% above average.

 

And that is for something called a “micro-suite,” which is half the size of the average Victoria rental. At 330 square feet, reporters who attended Freeland’s announcement described the micro-suite as about the size of two parking stalls.

 

It has a tiny – tiny – bathroom, a kitchen that runs along the wall opposite the living room-dining room-bedroom, which contains an eating table by day that tucks out of the way for the fold-down bed to come out of a wall at night.

 

 

 

https://www.msn.com/...hv2?ocid=iehp6g

[Mike K.]

The building also opened a year ago.

[HiramAbiff]

You're mistaking me for my neighbour, John Asfar. I'm the guy next to the Roman-themed guest house. You've been egging the wrong guy's house, dude.

Is this the same John Asfar that surfaced in Swaziland in Southern Africa claiming to be a billionaire:

 

https://swazibridge..../?iywtrre=fFev