With 30 new neighbours expected to move in across the street in the next few days, Fillion wanted to make sure they felt part of the community. “I wanted them to know that they’re part of our neighborhood now and that they’re really, really welcome here,” she said. People are expected to continue moving in over the weekend, with all 30 units to be occupied by Monday, said Grant McKenzie, communications director for Our Place Society, which is managing the community. Others have also stopped by to welcome the new residents, dropping off flowers and freshly baked cookies, McKenzie said.
VICTORIA The Tiny Homes Village transitional housing project in Victoria has received its first round of residents on Friday. The housing project in the North Park Neighbourhood across from Royal Athletic Park is built out of converted shipping containers and will house 30 people who have been living in parks during the pandemic. The initiative was started by Aryze Developments last December and received huge community support through crowdfunding and from the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, BC housing, and City of Victoria. The site will be used for the next 18 months while the province builds other, more permanent housing in the region.
It has space for 30 residents.
Shipping container tiny-homes in Victoria will look like this one, staged for a media tour in late April. (Rohit Joseph/CBC) Just the act of having a roof over your head, a shower, a washroom, privacy, an opportunity to build community, feel welcome, feel part of community, that alone helps to to bring down people s stress and provide an opportunity for some stability which they may not have had for years, Kelly Roth, the executive director of the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, told CBC s Rohit Joseph.
The tiny-home village in Victoria, B.C., will provide a safe, private living space for 30 residents. (Rohit Joseph/CBC)