50 influential women band together to raise funds for affordable housing

This 100-unit affordable housing project will be built at 81 Avenue and King George Boulevard. Fifty influential women are coming together to raise funds for the project, undertaken by Options Community Services.



There is a unique angle in a campaign to raise funds for a proposed affordable housing project in Surrey.

Options Community Services has worked as a registered charity to provide essential social services in Surrey, Delta, White Rock/South Surrey and Langley. For its 50th anniversary, Options has brought together 50 influential South Fraser women to help raise $1.5 million dollars in support of a new affordable housing project, to be located at 81 Avenue and King George Boulevard.

The project, to be located at 8109, 8123 and 8135 King George Boulevard, will contain 100 housing units. Thirty will be rented at market rates, with the remaining 70 affordable housing, with rent as low as $375 per month.


The new building will also host community services such as Early Years, mental health outreach, and family services. With occupancy slated for mid-2023, this project expands Options’ capacity to provide community support and to add affordable housing in Surrey.

Options board members and staff have also contributed to the cause and the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society has contributed $250,000.

 

A list of all 50 participants can be found on the womenofoptions.ca website. Community support is still needed to turn this campaign into a reality. To learn more about ways to help or donate, please visit womenofoptions.ca. Each of the 50 women involved in the campaign will seek to attain a goal of raising $25,000 for the project, for a total of $1.5 million. All of the women are well-known in the South Fraser area, in business, politics, community services and other endeavours.


They include former Surrey mayors Dianne Watts and Linda Hepner; former Surrey MP, MLA, councillor and school trustee Penny Priddy; Anita Huberman, CEO of the Surrey Board of Trade; Ramona Kaptyn, president of the White Rock Surrey CARP chapter; Ritu Khanna, executive director of the South Surrey White Rock Chamber of Commerce; Laura Ballance, president of Laura Ballance Media Group; well-known Langley lawyer Rebecca Darnell; Langley City Councillor and former school trustee Rosemary Wallace and former Langley MLA Mary Polak.


To find out the names and backgrounds of all 50 women, visit women of options.ca.


As Huberman says, “We need to have housing options that are available to all income segments to live, learn, work and play in our own city.”

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