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)
Proceeds will support the 2,000 families who stay at Ronald McDonald House B.C. and in the dedicated family room at Surrey Memorial Hospital each year. In operation since 1983, Ronald McDonald House B.C. is a 73-bedroom house on the grounds of B.C. Children’s Hospital. It allows family members to be close to their children as they receive medical care. For more information, go to give.rmhbc.ca/stepupforfamilies. Youth orchestras play together online Watch as 350 musicians with the Apollo Initiative, a collection of youth orchestras from across B.C., perform a free virtual concert to celebrate Youth Mental Health Day on Friday.
VICTORIA Media and local officials took a behind-the-scenes tour of the Tiny Homes Village in Victoria, which is set to receive its first 30 occupants on May 12. The project will provide transitional housing for individuals experiencing homelessness in converted shipping containers located near Royal Athletic Park. The concept for the housing project was brought forward by Aryze Developments last December and received huge community support. On Thursday’s tour, media and officials got their first look inside one of the village s 100-ft living units, furnished with a bed, side table, a small fridge and armoire with towels. The designers say the project is meant to have a community feel.
“Also, the City of Nanaimo has approached us [about] helping them with a pilot project much larger than this,” he said. “So I think what’s quite beautiful about this project is that these shipping containers are going to probably have a second, third, fourth life. We’re not retaining ownership of them. Our hope is to see these get passed on to another community.” Mari spoke as reporters toured the village next to Royal Athletic Park at 940 Caledonia Ave. Nearing completion, it will provide temporary housing for 30 people currently living in city parks. The tiny houses are expected to remain at the site until the fall of 2022.
Placing the statue in the museum along with an accurate, as possible, description of Macdonald, his government and policies will provide a learning opportunity for all of us. It is not only time to take the statue out of storage; it is time we learn the positive and negative policies of his actions and as the adage says, “learn from our past”. By placing the statue in a public place such as Bastion Square, we are venerating the man and everything he stood for, forgetting that not everyone benefited from his actions and that such statues can be hurtful reminders of a past that favoured certain privileged groups over others.