Sign the open letter: keep Port Moody’s women’s transition housing project alive.
BC Housing has confirmed that the Women’s Transition Housing and Supports Program project in Port Moody won’t proceed. Forty homes for women and children fleeing domestic violence, with Beedie as developer and ACT 2 Child and Family Services as operator, have been shelved. There’s no replacement timeline. The project sits in limbo.
Port Moody has no transition housing. None. Women leaving violent situations in our city right now have nowhere to go within our community.
I’ve written an open letter to our MLA, Rick Glumac, asking him to do three things:
Meet with BC Housing within 30 days to establish a firm project timeline.
Raise the project directly with the Minister of Housing.
Report back to constituents in writing.
Why this got shelved
This wasn’t a wish-list item that got trimmed. ACT 2, Beedie, and the City of Port Moody all did what the province asked. The operator was named. The developer was named. The years of partnership work were in. Then Budget 2026 cut roughly $2 billion in taxpayer-supported capital spending, and this project, along with hundreds of similar units across BC, vanished from the build queue.
The Union of BC Municipalities has named the contradiction plainly: the province sets housing targets for municipalities while cutting the funding non-profits need to meet them. Surrey alone lost 954 units across eight cancelled or deferred projects, including additional women’s transition housing.
Why I’m asking you to sign
I’m signing this letter as a neighbour who’s watched ACT 2 and Beedie do everything that was asked of them. The land was sorted. The operator and developer were named. The City did its part. That work doesn’t get to be erased because the province changed its mind on the capital plan.
This is the kind of fight where pressure on the MLA can actually move something. Glumac sits in caucus with the Minister of Housing and at the Cabinet table as a Minister of State. He can advocate inside the room. We need him to.
If you live in Port Moody or the Tri-Cities, sign the letter. Forward it to a neighbour, a colleague, your church or mosque or synagogue or community group. If you represent a Tri-Cities organization that wants to add an institutional signature, email me at aaron@aarondemes.com and I’ll add you to the letterhead before delivery.
Forty families need this project built. And forty more. And then forty more.