The City recognizes that the provision of high quality child care spaces facilitates early childhood development, enables parents to work and contribute to the local economy, strengthens neighbourhoods and helps to build a more attractive, stable and complete community.
Addressing housing needs across the housing continuum includes providing housing and services for persons with very low income who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Through the Housing Affordability Strategy, Coquitlam's goal is to work with partners from the non-profit, private and public sectors to ensure that a wide variety of housing types, sizes, tenures and prices can be offered in Coquitlam in the years to come.