Building Attainable Housing Symposium Survey

CFEK + CVHS Housing Symposium. Community Survey

Community Futures East Kootenay (CFEK) and the Columbia Valley Housing Society (CVHS) are inviting you to :

📢 Building Attainable Housing Symposium – December 4, 2025
📍 Radium Hot Springs Centre, Radium Hot Springs, BC
🗓️ Thursday, December 4, 2025
🕘 Full-day event

🤝 Event Supporting Partners.

Columbia Valley Community Foundation (CVCF)
Resident Directed Grants, Regional District of East Kootenay (Redi + RDEK)
Community Futures, Community Economic Development (CFEK + CED)

The Symposium is focused on connection, collaboration, and capacity-building for attainable housing across the Columbia Valley and East Kootenay region.

This event will:

✅ Highlight development plans and projects
✅ Share case studies—including successes, challenges, and lessons learned
✅ Provide practical tools, systems, and proformas to move your building projects forward
✅ Offer a space for questions, peer discussion, and expert advice.

We’ve scheduled this event soon after the Housing Central Conference, giving you time to process your learnings from that event and bring new ideas into local conversations.

This will help us shape the Symposium and ensure it meets your needs.

Please take a few minutes to complete this short survey.

1.Which group(s) do you belong to?

Non-Profit Housing Provider

Municipal, Regional or Indigenous Government

Construction Professional (incl Construction Manager, General Contractor, Home Builder, Architect, Engineer)

Development Consultant

Workforce Employer with Employee Housing Needs

Interested Citizen

Other (Please Specify)

2.What do you perceive are the top 5 challenges or barriers to building attainable housing?

3.Do you think others perceive different challenges than you? If so, what do you think their perceptions are?

4.What resources are needed in order to provide attainable housing?

For example people resources, funding, system resources, data, knowledge.
Be as specific as possible as to what you think would help.

5.Are there any best practices or lessons learned locally or elsewhere that could help alleviate today’s challenges and barriers?

6.What ONE THING would make the biggest difference in building attainable housing in your community?

7.What ONE THING would help YOU in being able to support the building of attainable housing in your community?