{"id":39,"date":"2026-10-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/ellatumakova-com\/2026\/10\/10\/b-c-governments-plan-to-buy-vacant-condos\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:00:00","slug":"b-c-governments-plan-to-buy-vacant-condos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/b-c-governments-plan-to-buy-vacant-condos\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C.: Governments Plan to Buy Vacant Condos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/ella-tumakova-prec-269920\/no-condo-bailout-remotion-videos-fd4d\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Opposition MPs asked an independent lobbying officer to review BC&#039;s $1.5B condo-conversion partnership, focusing on a Vancouver marketer, a developer executive, and possible lobbying breaches.<br \/>\nThe program was designed to convert &gt;2.2K vacant Metro Vancouver condominium units into affordable housing through federal and provincial housing agencies in BC.<br \/>\nDuring committee debate, one MP highlighted a Mid-Q1 fundraiser, Mid-Q2 unsold completed condos \u2191~75% in Metro Vancouver, and a Late-Q2 non-condo property transaction.<br \/>\nTheir earlier committee push ended on July 7, when a federal majority stopped debate on proposed witnesses and document requests for the program.<br \/>\nSeparately, a public petition on BC condo acquisitions stayed open through October 24, seeking disclosure, independent appraisals, below-market pricing, and permanent affordability protections.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition MPs asked an independent lobbying officer to review BC&#039;s $1.5B condo-conversion partnership, focusing on a Vancouver marketer, a developer executive, and possible lobbying breaches. The program was designed to convert &gt;2.2K vacant Metro Vancouver condominium units into affordable housing through federal and provincial housing agencies in BC. During committee debate, one MP highlighted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellatumakova.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}