Mayor’s plan leaves future of Vancouver supportive housing in limbo

A connection by Vancouver’s politician to halt caller supportive housing projects successful the metropolis has organizations with plans successful assorted stages of completion disquieted astir the projects they’ve spent years trying to get disconnected the ground.

Mayor Ken Sim announced past period that helium would beryllium putting guardant a connection to intermission construction of nett caller supportive lodging units successful Vancouver, arguing that the metropolis needs to absorption connected updating its existent stock, portion proviso successful different parts of the portion increases.

Julie Roberts, enforcement manager of Community Builders, says the enactment has play meetings that see representatives from the metropolis astir the plan and operation of a 64-unit supportive lodging gathering that was approved by assembly past year, but nary 1 has said if the mayor’s program volition let the task to spell ahead.

Donna-Lynn (Donnie) Rosa, the CEO of Atira, a lodging and women’s advocacy group, says she’s been told that its projects, which see a gathering that is expected to beryllium occupied this summertime and 1 that is being renovated, are not believed to beryllium astatine risk, though metropolis unit told her they don’t person wide directions yet.

Data provided by BC Housing database 795 supportive lodging units “underway” successful Vancouver arsenic of the extremity of September 2024, which covers “any task that is successful the planning, connection oregon operation phase.”

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A connection from the City of Vancouver says determination are 5 supportive lodging projects with a combined 330 supportive units astatine assorted stages of obtaining a improvement oregon gathering permit, arsenic good arsenic 1 further task with 53 supportive units nether construction.

The connection says immoderate changes to argumentation would necessitate absorption from metropolis council.

“The City of Vancouver has a wide improvement licence process, and unit volition proceed to process applications for societal and supportive lodging according to existing policies until a assembly solution is passed.”

No day has been provided for erstwhile Sim is expected to enactment guardant his connection to council.