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‘You Can Age and Still Be Valued’

‘You Can Age and Still Be Valued’

Four years ago, actress Samantha Mathis, who rose to fame in the ’90s starring in films like Pump Up the Volume and Super Mario Bros., was, like all actors, suddenly out of work after the pandemic forced the shut down of all TV and film productions.

“We didn’t know what was going to happen,” she tells PEOPLE of the industry.

At that exact same time she and her sister had closed on a house in New York’s Hudson Valley, so she moved to upstate New York, and did what a ton of people did during that time — discovered a side hustle.

Mathis says her real estate agent, who was also a friend, told her, “‘You would be a natural at this. You love architecture, you love homes, you love upstate, you’re great with people.’ ”

“At first I thought she was crazy,” Mathis says. “I think a lot of

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This Vancouver couple wants to have a baby. But their condo building may soon have a 55+ age limit

This Vancouver couple wants to have a baby. But their condo building may soon have a 55+ age limit

Kalina Malowany and her husband were thrilled to think they could finally have a baby in the condo they have lived in for the last five years.

The building they bought into, located in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, previously required that all residents be 19 years or older, meaning kids were out of the question. 

Then, last fall, the provincial government made amendments to the Strata Property Act, prohibiting strata corporations from imposing age-restriction bylaws except for a 55-plus restriction, which is not the case in the couple’s building.

But it soon could be.

After some excitement about possibly expanding their family, Malowany, 33 and her husband Artem Bylinskii, 32, found out building residents will be voting on April 20 to impose a bylaw requiring at least one resident of each unit be 55 or older.

Under the Strata Act, 55-and-over age restrictions are allowed, and hundreds of stratas in

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B.C. condo owner concerned after strata council implements new age restriction

B.C. condo owner concerned after strata council implements new age restriction


Brianna Pascoe has penned a letter to B.C. Premier David Eby after the strata in her Duncan condo building voted to enact a 55-plus age restriction bylaw.


“I am now a 30-year-old stuck in a retirement building,” Pascoe said, reading from her letter. “I no longer have a nice little stepping stone for my future.”


The vote was 19 to four in favour of the bylaw change.


The letter is asking Eby to close what she calls a loophole created by recent changes made to the Strata Property Act.


“Condo buildings that weren’t previously 55-plus, they have been allowed to change to a 55-plus building to avoid having to enact the changes he’s put in place,” said Pascoe.


Tony Gioventu, executive director of the Condominium Homeowners Association of BC, says there’s a reason why some stratas may be making a similar move.


“Strata

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