Housing for UBC employees

UBC's Housing and Relocation Services team can offer help in finding housing for newcomers in Vancouver or Kelowna, including reduced-rate and market-priced housing options on UBC's Vancouver campus.

Helping newcomers find a home

UBC offers online and relocation team resources to help newcomers, including foreign employees, find a place to live.

The employee section of UBC's Human Resources website offers a wealth of information on housing, moving and relocation to Vancouver. The following pages are available on the main site for faculty and staff:

Help from our Housing and Relocation Services teams

We can link you to faculty/staff rental programs, faculty loan programs, off-campus neighbourhood information, realtors and more. We can also talk to you about relative commute times from different parts of Vancouver or the Kelowna area, and help you make sense of which neighbourhoods and amenities might work best for you and your family.

For information about orientation to UBC, housing, immigration, and other relocation services, please contact:

UBC Vancouver Housing and Relocation Services
Granite Terrace III (near Save-On Foods)
Level 3, 3313 Shrum Lane
Wesbrook Village, Vancouver V6S 0C8
Hours: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m, Monday to Friday
604-822-6115
Email Sarah Gofflot, client services coordinator.

UBC Okanagan Relocations
Jacky Ivans: 250 807 9839

Relocation and moving contacts for hiring departments

Purchase requisitions or purchase orders

For general inquiries and to submit requisitions, contact UBC's Financial Operations in Vancouver. They're located at Fifth Floor, 6190 Agronomy Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3. Call 604 822 3261.

Reimbursement from the central relocation fund

The Central Relocation Fund is the UBC fund that supports eligible faculty and senior management moving to Metro Vancouver to work at the Vancouver Campus or to the Kelowna area to work at the Okanagan campus. The amount of reimbursement from the fund depends on where the individual or family is moving from and on the number of dependents relocating. Learn more about the central relocation fund. 

Vancouver campus: Financial operations
Thomas Straley: 604 827 2784

Okanagan campus: Finance Operations, UBC Okanagan
Christopher Munro: 250 807 9599

UBC Human Resources

600 - 6190 Agronomy Road
Vancouver, BC Canada
V6T 1Z3
Contact us

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