Banff calls for forum, inquiry into housing

October 13, 1998
Source: Edmonton Journal
Original story - link verified on August 20, 2000
By Johnnie Bachusky

Business and community leaders in the mountain resort are calling for their own investigation and a community-wide forum to address the housing crisis for Banff's impoverished low-income workers. "We certainly need to get the full picture and we've never had an honest evaluation, scope and depth of this problem," said Rockland Helpin, Banff's director of community services, who intends to forward an "immediate" recommendation to Banff Council to hire consultants to probe the community's staff accommodation crisis.

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