Struggles with housing shortages affecting B.C.’s small towns

Catherine Leach thought she would be pushed out of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast when her landlord decided to sell her home.

“I got super lucky that one of the few apartment buildings opened up and I got a suite in that building,” she says. “I would have had to leave the Coast. It was that close. And it’s not just about people having a home to live in. It’s about an affordable home and having homes so that people can actually work here.”