Johnson has been #homeless since June 2023. The family lived in a teepee, camped at powwows, couch-surfed & spent a month at a #Surrey homeless shelter before granted temporary funding to stay at a hotel through #JordansPrinciple — federal funding co-ordinated by #Indigenous Services #Canada.
And the current government, which pretends to be left-wing and socially oriented, has been in power for quite a bit longer. The BC NDP have made literally every problem worse: the housing crisis, the opioid crisis, First Nations relations, climate change….
I was disappointed to find out that the new rental housing being built here - won't actually be affordable enough for former tenants of the demolished homes that used to sit on this lot. Several low income, multi-suites rental homes were demolished last year & this year. We are in desperate need of truly affordable housing for low income & marginalized families in #Saanich & #VictoriaBC.
#NoFault#evictions like these — without any missed rent payments or damage to a unit — account for roughly 85% of the total in #BritishColumbia according to a 2023 #UBC study of the period between 2016 & 2021. During that interval, one-in-10 #BCrenters studied were #evicted.
These rates outpace the rest of #Canada in both total ousted #tenants & ones kicked out for no fault of their own.
Vivid, an 135-unit condo building in downtown Victoria, was billed as a pilot for an affordable home ownership program for middle-income earners. It was built by Chard Developments with a $53M low-interest loan from the B.C. government.
Four months after Tiny Town initially closed, #BCgovernment has now announced its plans to reopen the #SupportiveHousing units at same location.
#TinyTown previously provided homes for formerly #unhoused people on Caledonia Ave. The units were #repurposed#ShippingContainers, & the last of the residents moved out when the supportive housing at 1075 Meares St. opened in October 2023.
Further information on the evolution of 250 Terminal Ave. N takes place with an upcoming open house.
Hosted by #BCHousing, presentation boards for the planned permanent supportive housing component of the site will be set up and members of the project team answering questions on Monday, March 11 from 6-8 p.m. at the Beban Park Social Centre room C.
Postmedia News reviewed a decade of annual reports from #BCHousing and found that tens-of-millions-of-dollars a year in provincial #RentSubsidies haven’t been spent — and for those who do receive them, the subsidies are no longer enough to make ends meet.
#Housing providers and advocates say this is because the subsidies are too low for current market rates and a rigid application formula excludes some of the very people the program was meant to help.
[In photos of the space, prospective tenants can see that a mattress and box spring sit on the floor of an area that appears to be part of an unfinished basement off a laundry room. While it's described as "private" there are no doors visible in the photos.]
#Update from @jenstden: Interim CEO of Atira Women’s Resource Society Catherine Roome says progress has been made to ensure safe conditions in their single-room occupancy hotels, but there is still work to be done.
Fundraising for housing day 6 and I'm at 10% of my goal already! Thank you so much everyone! You can read more on the gfm page and donate there or on paypal. I wish I had more ways to show my gratitude💜💜💜: