Kelowna real estate boom forcing some renters out of longtime homes

Sarah Anderson doesn’t want to leave her hometown, but she and her family of four may not have a choice.

“My whole world kind of just fell apart,” she said, upon learning that her landlord planned to sell their rental home.

“Instant panic.” 

Anderson, 38, is one of many renters in Kelowna, B.C. — nobody knows how many —  whose lives are being upended by an unprecedented real estate boom, as affluent people from larger centres jostle for the Okanagan sunshine and

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