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Originally Posted by Klazu
I would be very wary of mixing very different housing types in one and the same building. Most people want to live with their socioeconomic peers, so I don't find a project mixing market condos and social housing a good idea. They have to be at least a separate building as us often the case.
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There are dozens of buildings that have non-market and condos in the same building. Often it's the podium of a tower - there are three on the same block of Davie (Jervis and Mirabel). There are 200 units in Woodwards and there will be non-market units in Landmark (for example).
There are a lot of new towers in Burnaby and other municipalities that have, or will have a podium of non-market housing and a condo tower above. There are are also buildings where there is a market/non market rental building and they're mixed in together within the building, including tenants paying welfare rates right up to full market, including a tower in Coal Harbour.
There are Provincial rent supplement schemes to help low-income and welfare recipients live in market rental units; if you're in one of those buildings there's no way you could tell what socioeconomic strata your neighbour might be from.