Richmond News
If you want more rental housing, why don’t you vote for it, was Richmond Mayor Malcom Brodie’s query to Coun. Michael Wolfe at last Monday’s council meeting.
Brodie was challenging Wolfe on his opposition to a proposal to build a 330-unit rental project in the Thompson area.
Wolfe is running in the current election under the RITE Richmond banner and at the meeting Brodie, who is also seeking re-election, read from RITE’s housing platform in an attempt to highlight what he called Wolfe’s “inconsistent” stance.
“What you say flies in the face of your platform,” Brodie told Wolfe at the council meeting.
“What more is the applicant to do to build rental housing in this city than what is being done in this report?” Brodie added. …