Editor:
Reading about Sechelt’s proposed six-storey strata blocks fills me with dread. I would normally be in favour of housing development on the Coast. I was only able to buy my house because the former owners moved to a new townhouse development more suitable to their changed needs as they grew older. Importantly, the price of their new townhouse was reasonable enough that they could sell their house to me at an affordable price.
The proposed six-storey development can’t fit that pattern because its prices will be pegged to the outrageously inflated prices of housing in the Lower Mainland, prices which only the very rich on the Coast could possibly afford. That leaves the rest of us on the Coast out in the cold. Surely, we must realize by now that housing in our community is too precious to be left to this under-regulated, out-of-control market, where profit and greed have no limits.
Kathleen Vance, Gibsons
