Province spends $9.4 million on building to house more homeless persons in Victoria
B.C. housing has purchased another building in Victoria to help provide temporary shelter space for people experiencing homelessness in the capital city.
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New property will offer 70 shelter spaces and will operate for the next year and a half
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Posted: Mar 31, 2021 1:53 PM PT | Last Updated: March 31
The building at 225 Russell St., is located just a block away from the Songhees Trail in Vic West and will offer 70 shelter spaces.(google maps)
So, yes, when 50 or so residents gathered in the quiet dead-end street, throwing around words like “blindsided” and “shell-shocked” to describe the way they had been treated by politicians and bureaucrats the ones who were celebrating the news as a big step in Victoria’s homelessness crisis the impression was of someone standing on shore, trying to stop a ship that had already sailed.
Here’s what’s going on: B.C. Housing is buying the property at 225 Russell as a temporary between 18 months and two years shelter for 70 people. It’s part of a plan that will see the City of Victoria and the province move more than 200 people out of encampments by April 30.
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Plan for temporary tiny-home village in Victoria made of shipping containers gets closer to reality
The 30 units fabricated out of 15 shipping containers will be located in a city-owned parking lot on Caledonia Avenue and staffed 24/7 in an effort to help people living rough in the provincial capital transition into stable housing.
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Project to create supportive housing in city parking lot very likely to go ahead, Mayor Lisa Helps says
Posted: Mar 03, 2021 12:08 PM PT | Last Updated: March 3
An image of the proposed tiny home project designed by Aryze Developments. The plan is to have 30 units of housing made out of 15 shipping containers, with staff on site 24/7 to help those experiencing homeless ultimately move into permanent housing.(Aryze Developments/www.canadahelps.org)