Victoria city officials and social services agencies scrambled Friday to open more shelter beds and warming tents in advance of an expected snowstorm.Environment Canada issued a winter storm warning . . .
B.C. Housing to reopen Victoria arena as emergency homeless shelter, but not until March
The province of B.C. has signed a lease for the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre arena in Victoria to be used as temporary housing for the city’s homeless population, but the shelter won’t be open until the worst of winter weather has ended in March.
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Posted: Jan 28, 2021 1:24 PM PT | Last Updated: January 28
The Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria was first set up as an emergency response centre last summer, using pop-up pods for homeless people.(Twitter/David Eby)
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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 The City of Victoria and provincial government say they are helping to move campers from Victoria’s Central Park into other areas due to flooding in the area. The city says that recent snow and rainfall has caused Central Park to flood, making it unsafe for people to shelter in. The municipality now plans to move campers into the parking lot of Royal Athletic Park until BC Housing can find additional indoor shelter space. “With the recent heavy rainfall, the situation in Central Park has become untenable for those sheltering,” said Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps in a release Tuesday.