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Recommendation #4: RMOW and WHA to Build More Employee Restricted Inventory
Status: IN PROGRESS

• The Municipality is working with it’s wholly owned subsidiaries the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) & Whistler Development Corporation (WDC), investing over $80 million in new employee rental housing

Active WHA & WDC Developments

Build additional employee restricted homes.
Four of the newly occupied developments and projects in progress listed below represent an over 50 per cent increase in WHA rentals. There are also plans to expand the Cheakamus Crossing neighbourhood (Parcel A) which will add further inventory to both rental and ownership housing.

Learn more about Parcel A: Cheakamus Crossing Phase 2

The community is invited to view the progress on the master planning process for the RMOW-owned lands in the Cheakamus Crossing neighbourhood (Phase 2), including the addition of employee-restricted housing. 

The Cheakamus Crossing Phase 2 plans are one of several initiatives from the Mayor’s Taskforce on Resident Housing underway to increase Whistler’s employee housing inventory. Explore the other taskforce initiatives below.

Private Employee Housing Intiatives

Housing Task Force Recommendations