Building Together was featured in an article in The Vancouver Sun on July 10, 2024

Learn more about how 50 women from across the Coast are coming together to help us build a new community services hub and 35 units of affordable housing for women. You can help us get this life-changing community project built by donating today at 50women.ca

On Wednesday, May 10, we will be hosting an Open House here at Inlet Avenue and we invite you to drop in and chat with us about all things Building Together.

We have successfully secured $257,639 in project funding for Building Together as part of the federal government's Local Food Infrastructure Fund.

Join us on Tuesday, December 6 for an insight in how Building Together will help address food security on the Sunshine Coast.

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.