B.C. Housing Minister says each contract won by a controversial non-profit agency will be scrutinized

British Columbia’s Housing Minister says each contract up for renewal with Atira Women’s Resource will be scrutinized and may be given to other organizations after the agency refused to fire its chief executive over conflict-of-interest allegations.

at the request of BC Housing board chair Allan Seckel, who wrote to Atira board members last week urging them to make immediate changes in leadership. “I know that at the time Rich Coleman said that but he had no legal powers unless he pulled all the contracts” for PHS Community Services Society, Mr. Kahlon said.

“The fact that Ms. Abbott constantly used BC Housing as a cash-flow bank to ensure that they could continue to make their payroll, I think is unacceptable,” he said. “Frankly, our confidence in them has really been shaken. … I certainly hope that the board comes to the realization that there needs to be changes. In the meantime, we will freeze all additional dollars that will be going to them and we will be looking at every single contract that we have with them.

Mr. Coleman said he is not familiar with all the details of the audit but his sense of Atira was that the organization “has done some pretty amazing work” and took on a lot of management of hotels during the pandemic that no one else wanted.

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