Two years ago we worked with Cortes Island's Regional Director, Mark Vonesch, to create a housing survey to help us understand the challenges that people face, the reality of housing on Cortes, and how our local government and housing society can have a positive impact.

The information we collected helped us take action and provided direction for our work. We learned that 19% of Cortes respondents don't have laundry, 12% don't have bathing facilities and 30% don't have an indoor toilet. That information was critical in helping us to prioritize adding community laundry, shower and toilet facility in the Rainbow Ridge Community Building.

We are now releasing a new survey with some additional questions to see how much has changed in the past two years and help steer our work moving forward. Please take a few minutes to fill it out if you live on Cortes as a renter or property owner. Whether you need housing or not, your voice matters and we'd like to hear from you.

LINK TO SURVEY

Your answers will be kept anonymous. An anonymized report will be shared back with the community. Thank you!

You can view previous survey responses HERE.