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 of approximately 200 or so units that will be needed,” she said of the Aryze project. “It’s I think a small part that the city can do through the contribution of land.”