City of Victoria staff are reviewing a proposal for a controversial 18-unit townhouse development on the border of Oak Bay. The half-acre lot at 902 Foul Bay Rd. has been vacant since a 1911 . . .
Hey Neighbour pilot project looks to house 30 members of the unhoused community
Photo sourced from Aryze.
As the City of Victoria moves forward with its plan to end sheltering in parks by March, a local development company has stepped in to lend a hand. Aryze Developments Inc., known for building luxury homes in the Greater Victoria area, approached the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness with an idea to transform 30 modified shipping containers into temporary housing. The project, called Hey Neighbour, has raised half of its target of $500 000 through crowdsourcing and will begin on the first 15 houses at the beginning of February.
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 . . .