BVRH Bulletin – May 2024 – Reg format
NEWS, INITIATIVES, AND EVENTS
Accreditation: BVRH has kicked off our accreditation process.
Our care partners at SE Health will lead as we work together towards
accreditation at our Bow River Lodge site. Accreditation, which is a
daunting task, is used to prove and improve standards of care.
Please join us at
the Bow River
Lodge Annual
Spring Garden
Party
Seniors’ Week is coming
up, during which we will
hold our annual Spring
Garden Party!
We’re thrilled to reconnect
with our community for a
day filled with joy,
laughter, and cherished
memories.
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PROGRAM OCCUPANCY RATES
Bow River Lodge – NSL 96%
Bow River Lodge – DSL 45%
Cascade House 74%
Bow River Homes 100%
Mount Edith House 100%
Community Housing 100%
Rent Supplement 100%
SPECIAL PROJECTS
This is Home (Phase 3+)
Considering ongoing, stubborn uncertainty in the interest rate markets,
rising construction costs and challenges aligning GOA and CMHC
funding, we will submit our project proposal to Alberta Seniors,
Community, and Social Supports in 2024. This will allow us to develop
greater certainty toward future capital and operational sustainability.
The province received approximately $500 million in funding requests
in 2023 for which they had $80 million to spend. They have
approximately $405 million in total for the program.
These projects, if approved, will refresh much of our Community and
Seniors’ Independent Housing stock while adding different types and
affordability levels of housing to the region in Canmore and perhaps
elsewhere. We hope that the GOA will appreciate and be able to
approve the opportunity here and that we will be able to collaborate
with them, the Town of Canmore, and ideally other Housing Agencies
to address some of the housing crisis in the Bow Valley.
RESOURCES
• If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 911.
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• For 24/7 nurse advice and general health information for Albertans
information on diseases, treatments, staying well, and healthcare services
dial 811.
• For 24/7 community program & service information, including
affordability programming in the Bow Valley dial 211.
• If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call or text 988.
ABOUT BOW VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING
Bow Valley Regional Housing (BVRH) is a Housing Management
Body (HMB) serving the Government of Alberta and the Bow
Valley Region. HMB operational funding sources vary. Tenants pay
accommodation fees. Those fees are subject to affordability limits,
which prevent them from fully covering the costs of operations.
Provincial grants and municipal ratepayer requisitions subsidize
seniors lodge deficits, while the province also subsidizes deficits in
independent seniors and community housing.
As the HMB for the Bow Valley region, BVRH is responsible for
social housing, as well as affordable supportive living
accommodation for seniors throughout Kananaskis Country, the
Bow Corridor, the MD of Bighorn, and all of Banff National Park,
an area covering about 13,500 square kilometers.
All told, we currently house, or help to house approximately 500
residents of the Bow Valley in eight permanent housing projects
encompassing 33 separate buildings.
