The BC Supreme Court granted a housing cooperative possession after its board corrected an earlier procedural fairness failure by giving an occupant a genuine opportunity to apply for membership and then reasonably refusing his incomplete application without the required credit check. Fair reconsideration did not oblige the board to waive neutral financial criteria, and a proposed arrears payment plan did not extinguish more than $54,000 in housing charges.
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Garry Point Housing Cooperative v O’Rourke, 2026 BCSC 1342
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Held. The BC Supreme Court granted a housing cooperative possession after its board corrected an earlier procedural fairness failure by giving an occupant a genuine opportunity to apply for membership and then reasonably refusing his incomplete…
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