Eby could not elaborate on any specific hotels or buildings being considered. An estimated 190 people are sheltering in Victoria parks but the province is preparing to house “significantly” more than that to ensure no one is left behind, Eby said. B.C. Housing is working with the City of Victoria to identify appropriate supportive housing sites. Eby said any new supportive housing facilities should not be in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood, which is already home to several such facilities including the former Comfort Inn on Blanshard Street and several former hotels on Gorge Road East. “I’m very clear with both B.C. Housing and Victoria that adding additional sites at Burnside Gorge is not on the table so we need to diversify and find other sites,” Eby said.
The provincial government is looking to buy or lease another hotel or vacant residential building in Greater Victoria to house hundreds of people without homes before the end of March, says B.C.’s . . .
VICTORIA Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and Coun. Jeremy Loveday have tabled a motion calling for the expedited approval and funding of ‘tiny home’ clusters in the parking lot of Royal Athletic Park. The tiny homes, which would be made out of converted shipping containers by local development company Aryze Developments, would house 30 unsheltered people currently living in the city. Currently, unsheltered people are already living in tents at Royal Athletic Park after the city and BC Housing moved the campers from Central Park to the parking lot due to recent flooding. The recent motion tabled by Helps and Loveday would be part of the city’s plan to house all unsheltered people in Victoria by the end of March.
The parking lot next to Royal Athletic Park is being pitched as a possible site for 30 tiny houses built from shipping containers and made available to people without homes. Victoria Mayor Lisa . . .
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