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City staff will work with B.C. Housing for a lease or licence of occupation. The city wants to see occupation of the homes by March 31, a target date for getting people out of parks and other areas and into their own places. The goal is to have about 200 “indoor sheltering solutions,” a city report said. Public comment is planned during the process, and Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said the North Park Neighbourhood Association has already indicated it is supportive. Helps said there has be...

The tents in the parking lot of Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park are one step closer to being replaced by a village of shipping containers.

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 faciliti...

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 H...

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 . . .

I am really very disappointed with very slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations. British Columbia has received more than 50,000 doses of both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines; however, only 17,510 people have been vaccinated. Why can’t this process be accelerated? We had more than three months to train in handling these vaccines. I admire and thank all the front-line health workers who are working round the clock to take care of British Colombians. I wish our senior public health care executives...

  VICTORIA -- A fundraising campaign to convert shipping containers into self-contained homes for Victoria’s unhoused population has reached its halfway point. That means that the vision of a local developer to provide rapid housing for people living in parks will soon be a reality. A fundraiser launched in partnership between Aryze Developments and the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness has raised almost $240,000 of its $500,000 goal to provide housing for people currently li...

A campaign raising money to convert shipping containers to tiny homes for people living in Victoria’s parks is almost halfway to its $500,000 goal. Luke Mari of Aryze Developments, which is . . .