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As province opens temporary housing at Royal Athletic Park and Russell Street, advocates call for dispersed housing and real homes

Province purchases Victoria hotel with long-term plans to create more affordable housing

Posted: Apr 28, 2021 10:41 PM PT | Last Updated: April 29 The B.C. government has purchased the Capital City Center Hotel for $25 million.(Google Maps) The B.C. government has purchased another hotel in downtown Victoria with plans to eventually redevelop the site for affordable housing.  Until then, Capital City Center Hotel, located at 1961 Douglas Street, will serve as temporary supportive housing for homeless people in the city, many of whom are currently camping in city parks. A May 1 deadline has been given for people to leave those areas.  Obviously, the priority is moving the remaining people who are living outside, inside, Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps told

Victoria musician wins $1M lottery prize

  VICTORIA A local rock-and-roll musician says he s stunned after winning a recent $1-million lottery prize. Victoria rocker Scott Murcheson recently learned he won the million-dollar prize for a Feb. 26 Lotto Max draw. According to the BC Lottery Corporation, Murcheson was with his sister when he learned he had bought a winning ticket. Finding out I was a winner was completely shocking, he told the BCLC. I m still in shock. Murcheson, lead guitarist of the Victoria-based band, MK5, purchased his winning ticket at the Victoria Loft pub in the Burnside Gorge area. I thought, Why not? I feel like you have to buy a ticket to win, he said.

City of Victoria council votes to end all-day camping in parks as of May 1

The city had set a deadline to offer housing to everyone by the end of March, but because two new sites providing 70 spaces will require significant retrofitting, the process to move people indoors will continue to the end of April. Locations of the two new shelters have not been released, but the province said they are not in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood, where residents have complained of a disproportionate number of supportive housing sites in the area. Once everyone living in encampments has been offered an indoor space, the city will return to prohibiting around-the-clock sheltering in parks, Mayor Lisa Helps said.

Plan to move people sheltering in Victoria parks indoors delayed to end of April

Plan to move people sheltering in Victoria parks indoors delayed to end of April
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