The Kamloops Housing Board is proud to be a part of this community project with the City of Kamloops, and the Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan. The Kamloops Housing Board was formed in 2010, in partnership with the City of Kamloops and the Homelessness Action Plan, as a body to address issues related to housing and homelessness in Kamloops. The mandate for the group is as follows:

The primary purpose of the Kamloops Housing Board will be to collect, analyze and distribute housing information in order to facilitate informed planning to address housing related issues in the community. Together with the support of the City of Kamloops and the Social Planning Council, the Housing Board will become an avenue to discuss recent trends, to evaluate supply and demand, to establish community priorities in an open forum, and to discuss policy and legislative reform where deemed necessary.

The purpose of the study is to attempt to understand need and demand for specific types of housing within Kamloops, with the aim to improve the provision of affordable housing overall. We had four objectives when we set out on this process.

• To inform municipal policy decisions regarding affordable housing in Kamloops
• To assist non-profits, businesses, faith groups & other organizations in the development of affordable housing
• To inform the work of the Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan
• To provide accurate information to the community related to affordable housing