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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 been a “state of emergency” for too long for people in the community needing homes. “This is 30...

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 facilities including the former Comfort Inn on Blanshard Street and several former hotels on Gorge Road East...

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 mo...