We're excited to share that The Globe and Mail recently featured our Building Together project! This $34-million development in Sechelt will provide 35 affordable housing units for single women and women with children, helping to address the growing housing crisis on the Sunshine Coast.

Art lovers are invited to the 50 Artists for SCCSS 'Canapés, Cocktails & Charity Art Auction' on Nov. 16, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at High Beam Dreams in Gibsons.

Sunshine Coast Community Services Society’s Building Together could be ‘iconic’

The much-romanticized phases of the Sunshine Coast’s past gives this place a glossy sheen. For many, it’s still a hippie hideaway, a draft dodger’s destination, a haven for fishers and loggers, a vacationer’s coastal escape. But research presented in a series of public forums this spring makes it harder to escape a dirtier truth.

An effort is underway to establish a strategy to reduce poverty on the Sunshine Coast and now the public is being invited to hear more about it, ask questions and share their experiences. “The Sunshine Coast is experiencing a crisis,” said Poverty Reduction Strategy Project consultant Betty Baxter in a release announcing three forums called Coming Together on Poverty.

Neighbourhood security, water, and how tenants will be chosen were the top questions during an online public information session on the Sunshine Coast Community Services Society’s (SCCSS) proposed housing project in Sechelt.